Nicholas N. Eberstadt is Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and Senior Research Associate at The National Bureau of Asian Research. Dr. Eberstadt is a specialist on problems of Korean reunification and its meaning for the United States. His many works on the subject include the book Korea Approaches Reunification (1995), and numerous articles, including a recent piece in Foreign Affairs on U.S. policy regarding reunification.

Dr. Eberstadt has served as consultant to the Departments of State and Defense, the U.S. Information Agency, the Census Bureau, the Congressional Budget Office and the World Bank. Dr. Eberstadt earned his PhD in political economy and government from Harvard University.