June Park

Dr. June Park is a South Korean political economist working on geopolitical risk and emerging technologies, observing East Asia, the U.S., Europe and the Persian Gulf. She focuses on geoeconomic and technological conflicts among nation states in digital and green transitions, ranging from semiconductor export controls/EV subsidies, AI regulations /data governance, to crypto regulations under sanctions/CBDCs. She analyzes different policy outcomes as a response to pressures based on industrial capacity and governance structures.

She serves as a 2023-2024 Visiting Fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs (formerly Brookings Doha Center) for her project, ‘South Korea-GCC Relations: Energy, Technology, Security,’ while serving as Expert PI (Principal Investigator) and Convener of the Emerging Technologies Workshops for a multi-year project for the Small States Research Program at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q). She concurrently serves as a non-resident fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) in Washington, DC. Dr. Park has served as a 2021-2022 Fung Global Fellow (Early-Career Scholar Track) at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) at Princeton University and a 2022-2023 inaugural Asia Fellow for the International Strategy Forum at Schmidt Futures.