Erin L. Murphy

Deputy Director, Chair on India and Emerging Asia Economics and Senior Fellow, Emerging Asia Economics
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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Southeast Asia Radio

Aftermath of Myanmar Earthquake with Erin Murphy

Greg was joined by Erin Murphy to discuss updates in Myanmar following the earthquake. Japhet and Lauren cover the latest from the region, from tariff negotiations to the Indonesia-Russia bilateral relationship.

Podcast Episode by Gregory B. Poling, Erin L. Murphy, Japhet Quitzon, and Lauren Mai — May 1, 2025

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U.S.-ROK Negotiations: An Opportunity to Reset on Trade, Investment, and Technology

An audio version of “⁠U.S.-ROK Negotiations: An Opportunity to Reset on Trade, Investment, and Technology⁠,” a new commentary by CSIS's Philip Luck, Erin L. Murphy, and Joseph Lim. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

Podcast Episode by Philip Luck, Erin L. Murphy, and Joseph Lim — April 23, 2025

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Compounding Devastation: The Myanmar Earthquake

Myanmar’s earthquake compounds an already dire humanitarian crisis. As the military regime weighs international aid against political optics, the impact of U.S. assistance is uncertain amid the absence of a functioning USAID presence.

Critical Questions by Erin L. Murphy — April 1, 2025

Audio Briefs

Compounding Devastation: The Myanmar Earthquake

An audio version of “Compounding Devastation: The Myanmar Earthquake,” a new Critical Questions by CSIS's Erin L. Murphy. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

Podcast Episode by Erin L. Murphy — April 1, 2025

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The Truth of the Matter

Protecting the Backbone of the Internet

CSIS’s Erin Murphy joins the podcast to discuss why subsea cables are so important to global security and how they can impact competition with China.

Podcast Episode by H. Andrew Schwartz and Erin L. Murphy — February 24, 2025

CSIS the truth of the matter