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Project Directors

Kristi Govella

Kristi Govella is the East Asia Project Director at BASC and a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on comparative politics and international relations in East Asia, particularly Japanese political economy and East Asian regional institutional architecture. Her work has been published in Asian Survey and various policy journals. Kristi has also worked at the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in addition to participating in Track II activities through the Pacific Forum CSIS and the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP). She holds an M.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in Political Science and Japanese from the University of Washington, Seattle.

Email: kgovella "at" berkeley.edu

Website: http://www.kristigovella.com

Tari Ellis is the Managing Editor for Business and Politics and a Ph.D. student in the Political Science department at UC Berkeley.




Allan Dafoe is the Associate Managing Editor for Business and Politics and a Ph.D. student in the Political Science department at UC Berkeley.

 

 

 

SY Oh

Seung-Youn OH is the Northeast Asia Project Director at BASC and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley. Her fields of interest are international relations, comparative politics, and regionalism in East Asia. Her current research focuses on the Chinese coastal province’s sub-national government strategies in fostering a race to the top and upgrading regional industrial profiles. Seung-Youn holds a M.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in Political Science as valedictorian from Yonsei University in Korea.


Email: ohusky "at" berkeley.edu

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