Erin L. Murphy

Deputy Director, Chair on India and Emerging Asia Economics and Senior Fellow, Emerging Asia Economics
Erin L. Murphy

Erin Murphy is deputy director of Chair on India and Emerging Asia Economics and senior fellow of Emerging Asia Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She has spent her career in several public and private sector roles, including as an analyst on Asian political and foreign policy issues at the Central Intelligence Agency, director for the Indo-Pacific at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, founder and principal of her boutique advisory firm focused on Myanmar, and an English teacher with the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program in Saga, Japan. Murphy received her master’s degree in Japan studies and international economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and her bachelor’s degree in international relations and Spanish from Tufts University. She was also a 2017–2018 Hitachi international affairs fellow in Japan with the Council on Foreign Relations. Murphy is also the author of Burmese Haze: US Policy and Myanmar's Opening-and Closing (Association for Asian Studies, 2022).

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Alternative Funding Mechanisms in Review

DOD’s new Office of Strategic Capital will work to ensure that the future warfighter has the capabilities they need by attracting and scaling private capital to critical technologies for national security, with the advantages and risks of a portfolio investment approach.

Report by Erin L. Murphy, Cynthia Cook, Emily Harding, Gregory Sanders, Nicholas Velazquez, Julia Dickson, and Maeve Sockwell — November 21, 2024

Staying Ahead in the Global Technology Race

Please join the CSIS Economic Security and Technology Department for a virtual event on October 31st from 2-4 pm ET to discuss the upcoming Department compendium: Staying Ahead in the Global Technology Race.

Event — October 31, 2024

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Making Infrastructure in the Indo-Pacific a Success

An audio version of “Making Infrastructure in the Indo-Pacific a Success,” a new commentary by CSIS’s Erin L. Murphy. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

Podcast Episode by Erin L. Murphy — October 29, 2024

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Making Infrastructure in the Indo-Pacific a Success

To compete with China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the United States and its partners and allies must engage the private sector, mobilize its collective resources, and work with targeted markets to provide the trillions of dollars in infrastructure funding.

Commentary by Erin L. Murphy — October 29, 2024