AboutFacultyJieun Baek

Jieun Baek
Ph.D. Candidate of Public Policy, University of Oxford
CULTURE GOVERNANCE & CIVIL SOCIETY

Jieun Baek
Jieun Baek is a doctoral candidate in Public Policy at the University of Oxford where she is researching first movers of dissent in Myanmar.

She authored North Korea’s Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground is Transforming a Closed Society (Yale University Press, 2016). She is the founder of Lumen, an organization that researches and sends information into closed societies. Previously, she was a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Baek worked at Google, where, among other roles, she served as Google Ideas’ North Korea expert. Baek received her bachelor’s in Government and master’s degrees in Public Policy from Harvard. Her hometown is Los Angeles, California. Visit her at www.JieunBaek.com.

Events

Wintersession 2018
GOVERNANCE & CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERSHIP HUMAN RIGHTS
Beyond the Headlines: Understanding Korea
Jieun Baek, PhD Candidate of Policy Policy at Oxford University, Melissa Hanham, Senior Research Associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, and a human rights activists shared their various experiences living in and working with the people of North Korea in a panel moderated by Kathy Moon, Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of Asian Studies and professor of political science at Wellesley.