Ramon Pacheco Pardo is the KF-VUB Korea Chair at the Brussels School of Governance of Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Professor of International Relations at King\'s College London. He is also Adjunct Fellow (Non-Resident) with the Korea Chair at CSIS, Non-Resident Fellow with Sejong Institute, Scientific Council Member at Elcano Royal Institute, and Committee Member at CSCAP EU. He has held visiting positions at Korea University, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, and Melbourne University. His publications include the books Korea: A New History of South and North (Yale University Press, 2023; with Victor Cha), South Korea’s Grand Strategy: Making Its Own Destiny (Columbia University Press, 2023), Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop (Hurst and Oxford University Press, 2022), and North Korea-US Relations from Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un (Routledge, 2019). Prof Pacheco Pardo has testified before the European Parliament and advised NATO, the OECD, the European External Action Service, the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the UK’s Cabinet and Foreign & Commonwealth offices, among others. He is a frequent media commentator on North East Asian affairs and EU-East Asia relations.