Senior Fellow for Korea Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Scott Snyder is a Senior Fellow for Korea Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and co-author of The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash: East Asian Security and the United States. Prior to joining CFR, Snyder was a senior associate in the international relations program of The Asia Foundation, where he founded and directed the Center for U.S.-Korea Policy and served as The Asia Foundation’s representative in Korea (2000-2004). He was also a senior associate at Pacific Forum CSIS. Snyder has worked as an Asia specialist in the research and studies program of the U.S. Institute of Peace and as acting director of Asia Society’s contemporary affairs program. Snyder was a Pantech visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center during 2005-2006, and received an Abe fellowship, administered by the Social Sciences Research Council, in 1998-99. He has provided advice to NGOs and humanitarian organizations active in North Korea and serves as co-chair of the advisory council of the National Committee on North Korea.