Scott A. Snyder is senior fellow for Korea studies and director of the program on U.S.-Korea policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Mr. Snyder served as an adjunct fellow from 2008 to 2011 and as project director for CFR’s Independent Task Force on policy toward the Korean Peninsula. Snyder is the author or editor of many books and articles on aspects of Korean politics and foreign policy, including The U.S.-South Korea Alliance Under Siege (forthcoming), North Korean Foreign Policy: The Kim Jong-Un Regime in a Hostile World (2023), and South Korea at the Crossroads: Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers (2018).
Prior to joining CFR, Mr. Snyder was a senior associate in the international relations program of the Asia Foundation, where he founded and directed the Center for U.S.-Korea Policy and served as the Asia Foundation’s representative in Korea from 2000 to 2004. He was also a senior associate at Pacific Forum CSIS. Snyder has worked as an Asia specialist in the research and studies program of the U.S. Institute of Peace and as acting director of Asia Society’s contemporary affairs program. Mr. Snyder was a Pantech visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center from 2005 to 2006, and received an Abe fellowship, administered by the Social Sciences Research Council, in 1998 to 1999. He serves as co-chair of the advisory council of the National Committee on North Korea.
Mr. Snyder received a BA from Rice University and an MA from the regional studies East Asia program at Harvard University. He was a Thomas G. Watson fellow at Yonsei University in South Korea.