Erin L. Murphy

Erin Murphy is the deputy director for the Chair on India and Emerging Asia Economics and senior fellow of Emerging Asia Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In this role, she focuses her research on bridging private capital and public initiatives to power strategic infrastructure investments in the Indo-Pacific. She has spent her career in several public and private sector roles and more than two decades working in the Indo-Pacific. From 2007 to 2012, Murphy served as an analyst on Asian political and foreign policy issues at the Central Intelligence Agency. She returned to government from 2020 to 2022 as director for the Indo-Pacific at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), overseeing a multibillion dollar pipeline focused on infrastructure, energy, digital, and healthcare investments and supported DFC engagement in initiatives such as the Trilateral Infrastructure Partnership, the Quad, G7 Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment, and the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. From 2013 to 2020, she founded and led a boutique advisory firm focused on Myanmar and emerging economies in Southeast Asia. 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 and a Japan Exchange and Teaching Program assistant language teacher from 2001 to 2003 in Saga, Japan. 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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Expert: PH has 'good story' in trade talks | Money Talks
Erin L. Murphy appearance on One News PH — May 2, 2025
Is China's new cable-cutter a game-changer, or just hype?
Erin L. Murphy cited in ABC — April 28, 2025
Can the world rely on its undersea cable network?
Erin L. Murphy in BBC — March 6, 2025
Business Outlook (8PM) | ANC (22 January 2025)
Erin L. Murphy in ANC — January 22, 2025
Cable-slicing ships show Russia pressing on a Western weak spot
Erin L. Murphy in Business Insider — January 15, 2025
Finland suspects Russia involved in cutting undersea power cable
Erin L. Murphy in CBC — December 26, 2024
A Chinese ship was near both subsea internet cables that were mysteriously cut, report says
Erin L. Murphy in Business Insider — November 20, 2024
Why the West's vital undersea cables are so vulnerable to attack
Erin L. Murphy in Business Insider — November 20, 2024
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Aftermath of Myanmar Earthquake with Erin Murphy
Podcast Episode by Gregory B. Poling, Erin L. Murphy, Japhet Quitzon, and Lauren Mai — May 1, 2025

U.S.-ROK Negotiations: An Opportunity to Reset on Trade, Investment, and Technology
Commentary by Philip Luck, Erin L. Murphy, and Joseph Lim — April 23, 2025
U.S.-ROK Negotiations: An Opportunity to Reset on Trade, Investment, and Technology
Podcast Episode by Philip Luck, Erin L. Murphy, and Joseph Lim — April 23, 2025

China’s Underwater Power Play: The PRC’s New Subsea Cable-Cutting Ship Spooks International Security Experts
Commentary by Erin L. Murphy and Matt Pearl — April 4, 2025
China’s Underwater Power Play: The PRC’s New Subsea Cable-Cutting Ship Spooks International Security Experts
Podcast Episode by Erin L. Murphy and Matt Pearl — April 4, 2025

Compounding Devastation: The Myanmar Earthquake
Critical Questions by Erin L. Murphy — April 1, 2025
Compounding Devastation: The Myanmar Earthquake
Podcast Episode by Erin L. Murphy — April 1, 2025

Rating India 2025: Key Opportunities and Risks
Event — February 24, 2025
Protecting the Backbone of the Internet
Podcast Episode by H. Andrew Schwartz and Erin L. Murphy — February 24, 2025

Security and Resilience: The Strategic Future of Subsea Cables
Event — December 18, 2024