Sue Mi Terry

Sue advises clients on Korea. She is director of the Asia Program and the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy at the Wilson Center. She previously held a range of senior policy roles related to Korea and its surrounding region.

Formerly a senior fellow with the Korea chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Sue also served as the national intelligence fellow in the David Rockefeller Studies Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. She was deputy national intelligence officer for East Asia at the National Intelligence Council, director for Korea, Japan and Oceanic affairs at the National Security Council under President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, and served as a senior analyst on Korean issues at the CIA.

Sue holds a PhD and master’s degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from New York University.