Erin L. Murphy

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

Erin L. 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, the 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 (JET) 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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PacTech Pulse: November 2025

This edition of PacTech Pulse covers November 2025.

Newsletter by Erin L. Murphy and Aryan D’Rozario — December 9, 2025

The Strategic Future of Subsea Cables: Egypt Case Study

The concentration of subsea cables funneled through the narrow Red Sea cements Egypt’s status as a global hub and chokepoint. Strategic and economic choices to enhance commercial appeal can secure Egypt’s continued position as a digital gateway between continents. 

Report by Erin L. Murphy and Thomas Bryja — November 12, 2025

Pac Tech Pulse: October 2025

This edition of PacTech Pulse covers October 2025.

Newsletter by Erin L. Murphy and Aryan D’Rozario — November 6, 2025

APEC’s Opportunity to Catalyze Mineral Security Cooperation

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea next week offers an opportunity for the United States and its partners and allies to make serious progress on securing critical minerals supply chains.

Commentary by Erin L. Murphy and Philip Luck — October 24, 2025

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APEC’s Opportunity to Catalyze Mineral Security Cooperation

An audio version of "⁠APEC’s Opportunity to Catalyze Mineral Security Cooperation⁠,” a new Commentary by CSIS’s Erin L. Murphy and Philip Luck. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

Podcast Episode by Erin L. Murphy and Philip Luck — October 24, 2025

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