Erin L. Murphy

Senior Fellow, Asia Program
Erin L. Murphy

Erin Murphy is a senior fellow for the Asia Program 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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Executive Education

Global Foresight: Preparing for Future Trends

Global Foresight: Preparing for Future Trends is Washington’s premier executive course for mid-to senior-level professionals responsible for helping their organizations predict and prepare for the global macrotrends that will drive change for the next 30 years.

Course Date: October 21, 2024
Registration Closes: October 9, 2024

The G7 Puglia Summit: Expectations & Outcomes

Please join CSIS experts as they discuss expectations and outcomes for the G7 Summit in Puglia, Italy on June 13-15 and also share the findings of a new CSIS report ““Bending” the Architecture: Reimagining the G7”on the future of the G7.

Event — June 12, 2024

"Bending" the Architecture: Reimagining the G7

The global governance system is in disarray. Time does not allow for building a new governance institution—but requires the “bending” of existing ones. This CSIS report offers recommendations on reimagining the future G7 as a critical institution of global governance.

Report by John J. Hamre, Victor Cha, Emily Benson, Max Bergmann, Erin L. Murphy, and Caitlin Welsh — June 12, 2024

Press Briefing: Previewing the G7 Summit

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will host a call-in press briefing on Monday, June 3, at 11:00 a.m. EDT with a range of experts discussing the most critical questions surrounding the upcoming G7 Summit, set to be held in Borgo Egnazia, Italy.

Event — June 3, 2024