Pritchard, Charles L. (Jack) is president of the Korea Economic Institute (KEI). Prior to joining KEI, he was a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC from September 2003 until February 2006. At Brookings, he focused on U.S. policy toward North Korea as well as the evolving nature of the United States-Japan foreign and security relationship. Ambassador Pritchard served as ambassador and special envoy for negotiations with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and U.S. Representative to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, from April 2001 until September 2003. Previously, he served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Asian Affairs in the administration of President Clinton. During the Clinton administration, he was also the Director of Asian Affairs in the National Security Council and deputy chief negotiator for the Four Party Peace Talks. He is a former United States Army officer, including service as attaché in Tokyo, Japan. He received a B.A. in political science from Mercer University, Macon, Georgia; an M.A. in international studies from the University of Hawaii; and a diploma from the Japanese National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo.

Kongdan (Katy) Oh is a Research Staff Member at the Institute for Defense Analyses and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution. She has written on a wide variety of topics in East Asian studies.

Katy was born in South Korea. She received her B.A. in Korean language and literature and Oriental history from Sogang University and an M.A. in Korean language and literature from Seoul National University. She came to the United States in 1979 and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Asian studies at Berkeley, becoming the first Berkeley student to receive a doctorate from the Asian studies program.

Before coming to the United States, she taught courses in Asian studies and East Asian politics for the University of Maryland University College in Korea. After receiving her Ph.D., she became the academic coordinator for Berkeley’s Center for Korean Studies, and lectured in the Graduate Program in Pacific Basin Studies at Dominican College. In 1986, she moved to RAND in Santa Monica, California, where she worked as a Political Scientist until 1995. She then came to Washington, where she did consulting work for government and private-sector clients, including the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Institute for Defense Analyses. In 1997 she joined the Institute for Defense Analyses as a Research Staff Member in the Strategy, Forces, and Resources Division. Since coming to Washington, she has taught courses at the Elliott School of International Studies at George Washington University and the Graduate Program in International Commerce and Policy at George Mason University.

Katy is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and its Korea Task Force, the Korea Working Group of the United States Institute of Peace, and she is the co-founder and co-director of the Korea Club of Washington.