Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor of International Political Economy in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Before joining NTU, I was a postdoctoral scholar in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University.

My research spans several areas within International Political Economy, including the political economy of trade, U.S. foreign economic policymaking, firms' political behavior in global value chains, and economic sanctions. Together with my postdoctoral supervisors, I am developing a novel database on government-mandated economic restrictions imposed by the U.S., the EU, and the UN from 1992 to 2024. This effort is part of the Government-Imposed Restrictions on International Economic Relations project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

I hold a Ph.D. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland and B.A. and M.A. degrees in International Relations from Seoul National University.