Miyeon Oh is Distinguished Korea Policy Chair and a senior security and defense researcher at RAND. The Korea Policy Chair focuses on challenges to East Asian security and prosperity that are of interest to the Republic of Korea and the United States. As chair, Oh seeks to expand RAND's Korean research portfolio, build partnerships, raise RAND's profile in the region, and mentor junior researchers. She is also a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy.
Most recently, Oh served as the director and senior faculty lead of the Korea Studies program at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She was also the founding director and senior fellow of the Asia Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council.
Oh was a Brookings Institution foreign policy predoctoral fellow in 2013–2014 and received a Smith Richardson Foundation strategy and policy fellowship in 2016–2017. Previously, she had public-sector experience with the United Nations and Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs before joining the Atlantic Council in 2016. Her areas of expertise include global supply chains of emerging and advanced technology that is critical to national security, energy security, infrastructure development, and digital connectivity in the Indo-Pacific, changing political and economic architecture in the Asia-Pacific, Sino-Russian relations, U.S.-Japan-ROK trilateral cooperation, and the U.S.-ROK alliance.
Oh has a doctorate in international relations from SAIS, a master's in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and master's and bachelor's degrees from Yonsei University in Seoul.
Ph.D. in international relations, SAIS Johns Hopkins University
