Nicole M. Finnemann
Director of Academic Affairs & Research

Office: 202-222-0023
E-mail: nmf@keia.org

Nicole Finnemann is the Director of Research & Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute and is responsible for issues related to North Korea and for academic outreach. Around the country, she organizes and speaks in KEI's numerous university programs and academic symposia. In Washington, Ms. Finnemann is responsible for programming and publications related to North Korea as well as KEI's Academic Paper series. Her primary substantive areas of interest are negotiation and North Korea. She returned from her first trip to Pyongyang in April, 2008. Following meetings with North Koreans, Ms. Finnemann authored and has since facilitated “Getting to Normal: A Six Party Talks Simulation” for hundreds of participants around the country, exposing them to the competing interests and needs of the six nations negotiating the denuclearization of North Korea.

Outside of KEI, Ms. Finnemann has participated in referendum and peace agreement drafting for the Public International Law and Policy Group, co-founded the American University Negotiation Project, as well as LINC Negotiation Architects, a consultancy providing negotiation and mediation training materials. She also has over five years of primary and secondary-level teaching and curriculum design experience. Having lived in Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands, Italy, and South Korea, Ms. Finnemann speaks Spanish fluently as well as some Italian and Korean. She holds a B.A. in mathematics from Kalamazoo College and an M.A. in International Conflict Resolution from the American University's School of International Service.

Ms. Finnemann lives in Washington D.C. with her husband Benjamin Callam and spends much of her free time playing soccer.