Current Kelly Fellows

Ms. Adrian Yi is a Kelly Fellow at the Pacific Forum Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She received her MA in Korean Language at the University of Hawaii as a part of the National Security Education Program (NSEP). She has studied abroad at Korea University for a year and interned as a research assistant at the Center for Security and Strategy at the Korea Institute for Defense Analysis (KIDA). She received a BA in International Relations and Foreign Languages (Chinese and Japanese) from the University of Puget Sound. She studied Chinese at Middlebury College and has studied abroad in Japan through the Rotary Program. She has also worked with the Department of State at the American Institute in Taiwan.

Dr. Kevin Shepard is a Kelly Fellow at the Pacific Forum CSIS and a research fellow with the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University. He holds a Ph.D. in North Korean Politics and Unification Policies from Kyungnam University, Graduate School of North Korean Studies. He also holds an M.A. in International Policy Studies from Sydney University and an M.A. in Korean from the University of Hawaii. He has contributed chapters to The Dynamics of Change in North Korea (Kyungnam University, 2009); Joint US Academic Studies Volume 20 – Navigating Turbulence in Northeast Asia: The Future of the US-ROK Alliance (Korea Economic Institute, 2010); and the forthcoming publications A Roadmap for Expanding U.S.-ROK Alliance Cooperation (The Asia Foundation, 2010) and the International Journal of Korean Unification Studies (KINU, 2010). His articles have also appeared in Asia Business and Technology Report, IFES Forum, and ICNK Forum.

Mr.Sungmin Cho is a 2011 Kelly Fellow from South Korea.  He received his BA in Political Science at Korea University and spent a year as an exchange student at the University of British Columbia in 2003-2004. In 2005, Mr. Cho joined the Republic of Korea Army and served as an intelligence officer for three years, including a seven-month tour to Iraq in 2006. In 2010, he earned MA in international relations from Peking University with his dissertation on North Korea's nuclear issue and its impact on the Sino-US relations.Sungmin is currently working on the dynamics of the Sino-Korean Peninsula relations in the post cold war era and their strategic implications.