Jieun Baek is an author and scholar whose work examines authoritarian governance, regime stability, elite political behavior, and information access in closed societies, with particular focus on North Korea and Burma. She is the author of North Korea’s Hidden Revolution and Privileged but Powerless, both published by Yale University Press. She is the founder of Lumen, and previously led Labs at Liberty in North Korea. Earlier in her career, she worked at Google Ideas, now Jigsaw, as its North Korea expert.

She currently serves as a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and adjunct faculty at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government. She holds a PhD in Public Policy from the University of Oxford, an MPP from Harvard Kennedy School, and a BA from Harvard College.