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Duyeon Kim (Adjunct Senior Fellow)

Duyeon Kim

Adjunct Senior Fellow

Duyeon Kim PhD is an adjunct senior fellow with the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the
Center for a New American Security based in Seoul. Her expertise includes the two Koreas,
nuclear non-proliferation, arms control, East Asian relations and geopolitics, US nuclear policy,
and security. She is also a Visiting Professor at the Yonsei University Graduate School of
International Studies.

She was previously senior advisor for Northeast Asia and nuclear policy at the International
Crisis Group; an associate in the nuclear policy and Asia programs at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace; and a senior fellow and deputy director of non-proliferation at the
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington DC. In her early career, she was
the foreign ministry correspondent and unification ministry correspondent for South Korea’s
Arirang TV News. Dr. Kim holds a PhD in international relations from Korea University; an MS in foreign service from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service; and a BA in English/literature from Syracuse University.

Richard Broinowski (AO)

Richard Broinowski

AO

Richard Broinowski was admitted to the South Australian Supreme Court Bar in 1963 and joined the Department of External Affairs later that year. After studying Japanese, his early diplomatic postings were to Tokyo, Rangoon, Tehran and Manila. He was appointed to his first ambassadorial role in 1983 as Australian Ambassador to Vietnam. Between 1987 and 1989 he was Australian Ambassador to South Korea. From 1990 he worked at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as managing director of Radio Australia, returning to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 1993. In April 1994 he was appointed as Australian Ambassador to Mexico (with dual accreditations to central American states). From 1997 he was an adjunct professor in Media and Communications, first at the University of Canberra and then at the University of Sydney. He was appointed an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia in 2019. He was president of the AIIA NSW from 2014-2017.
He is author of A Witness to History: The Life and Times of Robert Broinowski (Melbourne University Press 2001), Fact or Fission?: The Truth about Australia's Nuclear Ambitions (Scribe 2003), Driven: A Diplomat's Autobiography (ABC/HarperCollins 2009), Fallout from Fukushima (Scribe 2012), Under the Rainbow: The Life and Times of E.W. Cole (Melbourne University Publishing 2020) and Fact or Fission?: The Truth about Australia's Nuclear Ambitions (second edition, Scribe 2022).