Chung Min Lee is a University Professor at the Institute of Security Convergence, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Senior Fellow (Asia Program) at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., and Chairman of the International Advisory Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. Before joining Carnegie in 2018 and KAIST in 2021, he taught for nearly 20 years at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, in Seoul, and spent a decade at leading think tanks and universities in Asia and the United States. He was a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation (1995-1998), a research fellow at the Sejong Institute (Seoul, 1989-1994), a visiting fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies (Tokyo, 1994-1995), visiting professor at the National Research Institute for Policy Studies (Tokyo, 2004-2005), and a visiting professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (2005-2007). Lee served as the ROK’s Ambassador for National Security Affairs (2013- 2016) and Ambassador for International Security Affairs (2010-2011). He also served as a member of the Presidential Foreign Policy Advisory Council (2009-2011) and as an advisor to all national security-related ministries and agencies since the late 1990s. Lee received his BA in political science from Yonsei University (1982) and his M.A.L.D. and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (1988).