Publications
- Ensuring the U.S.-ROK Energy Alliance: Potential and Prospects
- Updating the U.S.-ROK Alliance for New Frontiers
- Northeast Asia’s Kovykta Conundrum: A Decade of Promise and Peril
Se Hyun Ahn
Seoul University
Se Hyun Ahn served as the Secretary to the President for Economic Security at the Office of National Security in the Republic of Korea Presidential Office in 2024. He also served as the Vice President for International Affairs and Director of the Center for Energy Security Strategic Studies at the University of Seoul. He is also a member of the NBR Board of Advisors and the advisory board for the Pacific Energy Summit at the National Bureau of Asian Research.
Dr. Ahn is a Professor in the Department of International Relations at Seoul University and was the Member of the Policy Advisory Board of the Republic of Korea President’s Office, Office of National Security. He is also the current and former member of the policy advisory committee for the ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ROK Ministry of Defense, the ROK Ministry of Unification as well as the ROK Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries. He is also a member of policy advisory of the ROK Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy, Energy Security Committee. He is also a board member of the Council for Security Cooperation of Asia Pacific Korea and Pugwash Conferences. Additionally, he is a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific–Korea. Previously, Dr. Ahn was also a visiting professor at the China Institute for International Studies and the Beijing Normal University–Hong Kong Baptist University, as well as a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
As an expert in energy security and diplomacy, oil and natural gas pipeline politics, and security issues in Northeast Asia, Dr. Ahn has spoken at many conferences across the world. He is an author of Power Struggles: Energy Security and Energy Diplomacy in the Asia Pacific (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022); Policing Northeast Asia: The Politics of Security in Russia and Korea (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020); and What is Economic Security? (Chung Media, 2022) and over a dozen articles that have been featured in publications such as the Journal of International Area Studies, Asian Survey, East West Journal, Asia Policy, and the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre, among many others.
Dr. Ahn received his PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He holds a BA in International Relations and Russian Studies from Cornell College and an MA from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He also studied at the St. Petersburg Mining University in St. Petersburg, Russia.