This Asia Society Korea webinar focuses on the increasingly critical topic of international cooperation for countering cybersecurity risks. From cybercrime to hybrid threats to cyber warfare, the challenges and difficulties in protecting digital information systems, critical infrastructure, and other cyber domains now require international cooperation more than ever. Asia Society Korea is honored to bring together three experts to discuss the cyber threat landscape and the possibility of international cooperation to mitigate those threats, especially the contribution from the EU and South Korea: Michael Reiterer (Amb. (ret.) of the European Union to South Korea), Prof. Cai Cuihong (Fudan University), and Prof. Lee Sangho (University of Daejeon). This webinar will also serve as an opportunity to discuss Amb. Reiterer's new edited volume, Cybersecurity Policy in the EU and South Korea: From Consultation to Action.
Mason Richey (Moderator) is a senior contributing writer to Asia Society Korea and an associate professor of international politics at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, South Korea). Dr. Richey has also held positions as a POSCO Visiting Research Fellow at the East-West Center (Honolulu, HI) and a DAAD Scholar at the University of Potsdam.
His research focuses on U.S. and European foreign and security policy as applied to the Asia-Pacific. Recent scholarly articles have appeared (inter alia) in Pacific Review, Asian Security, Global Governance, and Foreign Policy Analysis. Shorter analyses and opinion pieces have been published in War on the Rocks, Le Monde, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, and Forbes, among other venues.
Dr. Richey received his Ph.D. from Binghamton University, New York.
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H.E. Michael Reiterer is Former Ambassador of the European Union to the Republic of Korea, and most recently held the position of Principal Advisor at the Asia and Pacific Department at the European External Action Service (EEAS) in Brussels, where he oversaw strategic and security matters. He previously served as EU Ambassador to Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein (2007–2011), Minister/Deputy Head of the EU Delegation to Japan (2002–2006), and ASEM Counselor (1998–2002).
In addition to holding degrees in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and the Johns Hopkins University/Bologna Center, Ambassador Reiterer studied law at the University of Innsbruck (Dr. Juris). In 2005, he was appointed adjunct professor (Dozent) for international politics at the University of Innsbruck. Time permitting, he teaches at various universities and specializes in EU foreign policy, EU-Asia relations, and interregionalism, areas in which he has published extensively.
He is currently serving as Distinguished Professor for International Security and Diplomacy at the Institute of European Studies in Vrje Universiteit Brussel (VUB), as Adjunct Professor of International Politics at the University of Innsbruck and as Adjunct professor at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali "Guido Carli" (LUISS) in Rome. He also serves as Associate Fellow for the Global Fellowship Initiative at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), Senior Research Associate at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies and Senior Advisor to the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy (CAPS), Washington D.C.
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Sangho Lee is a Professor of Politics and Diplomacy at Daejeon University, Korea. He previously served as Assistant Administrator of the Republic of Korea Navy Development Committee and as Chairman of the Korea Cyber Peace and Security Forum. He is currently Vice President of The Korea Association of National Intelligence Studies. Prior to Daejeon University and the ROK Navy, Dr. Lee was a researcher in the Department of Security Strategy Studies at the Sejong Institute and a research fellow at Korea Research Institute for Strategy (KRIS).
He was a researcher at Centre for Defence Studies and reported to the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of the British Armed Forces while undertaking teaching responsibilities at King's College London. Previously, he also served as an Adjunct Professor at Gyeonggi University and Hannam University. Dr. Lee received his Ph.D. in War Studies from King’s College London, MA in Political Science from Yonsei University's Graduate School of International Studies, and BA in International Relations from St. John’s University.
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Cuihong Cai, Ph.D., is a professor of international relations with the Center for American Studies at Fudan University. She received her B.S. (1993) and M.S. (1996) in biophysics as well as her Ph.D. (2002) in international relations from Fudan University. She was a visiting scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002, and at the University of California, Berkeley in 2007, as well as an invited fellow in the 2007 program on the U.S. National Security sponsored by the U.S. State Department.
Dr. Cai is the author of Cyberpolitics in U.S.-China Relations (English 2021, Chinese 2019), Political Development in the Cyber Age (2015), U.S. National Information Security Strategy (2009) and Internet and International Politics (2003), as well as several dozen articles and papers on cyberpolitics, cybersecurity strategy, cyberspace governance, and U.S.-China relations.
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