Dr June Park is a Senior Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore. She is a South Korean political economist working on the geoeconomics of emerging technologies, observing East Asia, the US, Europe and the Gulf. Concurrently, she is a Non Resident Fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs (ME Council; formerly Brookings Doha Center) in Doha, Qatar and at the National Bureau of Asian Research in Washington, D.C. She is a member of the Helsinki Geoeconomics Society.

Prior to joining MEI-NUS, she held various positions in academia and policy: a Visiting Fellow at the Governance and Development Program of the ME Council (2023-2024) in Qatar, an inaugural Asia Fellow for the International Strategy Forum at Schmidt Futures (2022-2023), a Fung Global Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) at Princeton University (2021-2022), and an EAVI Fellow at the East Asia National Resource Center of the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University (2020-2021).

She is finalising her first book manuscript, DIGITAL TRADE WARS & CURRENCY CONFLICT: China, South Korea and Japan’s Responses to U.S. Pressures. The book project is under the International Strategy Forum (ISF) Fellows Individual Impact Grant of Schmidt Futures.

Dr. Park holds a PhD in Political Science with a focus on international political economy from Boston University (2015) as a Fulbright Fellow. She has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore (2015-2017).