Jieun Baek is an author and scholar focused on authoritarian governance, elite political behavior, information access, and human rights in closed societies. She is the author of North Korea’s Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society and Privileged but Powerless: How North Korean Elite Grievances Reveal the Regime’s Greatest Weakness, both published by Yale University Press.

She is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Indo-Pacific Security Initiative, adjunct faculty at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, and founder of Lumen, an organization dedicated to expanding information access in North Korea. Her work has been featured by NPR, BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and other outlets.

Baek holds a PhD in Public Policy from the University of Oxford, an M.PP and BA from Harvard. Visit her at www.JieunBaek.com.