Speaker
Sue Mi TERRY
- Affliation
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Title
- Senior Fellow for Korea Studies
Biography
Sue Mi TERRY is senior fellow for Korea studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
Most recently, TERRY was director of the Asia program and the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy at the Wilson Center from 2021 to 2023. Previously, she was a senior fellow with the Korea chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, managing director for Korea at Bower Group, senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and CFR’s National Intelligence Fellow.
In the U.S. government, TERRY was deputy national intelligence officer for East Asia at the National Intelligence Council, the director of Korea, Japan, and Oceanic Affairs at the National Security Council under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and a senior analyst at the CIA, where she produced hundreds of intelligence assessments.
She has taught at Tufts University, Georgetown University, the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Seoul National University, and the University of Chicago, where she was a 2019 Pritzker Fellow at the Institute of Politics.
TERRY is a producer of Beyond Utopia, an acclaimed documentary film about refugees escaping North Korea that won the 2024 DuPont-Columbia Award for excellence in broadcast journalism, was shortlisted for an Academy Award and nominated for a BAFTA Award.
TERRY received a B.A. in political science from New York University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Most recently, TERRY was director of the Asia program and the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy at the Wilson Center from 2021 to 2023. Previously, she was a senior fellow with the Korea chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, managing director for Korea at Bower Group, senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and CFR’s National Intelligence Fellow.
In the U.S. government, TERRY was deputy national intelligence officer for East Asia at the National Intelligence Council, the director of Korea, Japan, and Oceanic Affairs at the National Security Council under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and a senior analyst at the CIA, where she produced hundreds of intelligence assessments.
She has taught at Tufts University, Georgetown University, the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Seoul National University, and the University of Chicago, where she was a 2019 Pritzker Fellow at the Institute of Politics.
TERRY is a producer of Beyond Utopia, an acclaimed documentary film about refugees escaping North Korea that won the 2024 DuPont-Columbia Award for excellence in broadcast journalism, was shortlisted for an Academy Award and nominated for a BAFTA Award.
TERRY received a B.A. in political science from New York University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
