Lami Kim

Lami Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College. She also serves as a US-Korea NextGen Scholar as well as a Security and Statecraft Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Mansfield-Luce Asia Scholar, and an Adjunct Fellow at Pacific Forum. Her research interests are all things nuclear, emerging technologies and international security, and security issues in East Asia. Lami's work has appeared in The Washington Quarterly, Global Governance, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, War on the Rocks, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Bureau of Asian Research, Routledge, and The Diplomat. She has also provided commentaries regarding Asian security affairs to media outlets, such as Washington Post, Newsweek, Time magazine, Al-Jazeera, LA Times, and Voice of America, among others.

Lami has served as a research fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center, the Wilson Center, Pacific Forum, and the Stimson Center; as a Nuclear Scholar at CSIS; as a Visiting Fellow at Seoul National University; and also as a South Korean diplomat. She has taught at Harvard University, Boston College, and the University of Hong Kong. Lami holds a PhD degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a Master’s degree from Harvard University.