
Katrin Fraser Katz is a former director for Japan, Korea, and oceanic affairs on the staff of the National Security Council, where she served from 2007 to 2008. Previously, she was a special assistant to the assistant secretary for international organization affairs at the U.S. Department of State and an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. Dr. Katz’s research, which has been supported by grants from the Korea Foundation and the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, explores the interplay of cooperation and conflict in East Asia’s political, economic, and security dynamics. In 2017, she received the inaugural Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture Series award from the Korea Society. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University; a master’s degree in East Asian and international security studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she was awarded the John C. Perry Scholarship for East Asian Studies; and a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in international relations and Japanese from the University of Pennsylvania.
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CSIS Commission Report on North Korea Policy & Extended Deterrence
Event by John J. Hamre , Joseph S. Nye Jr. , Victor Cha , Katrin Fraser Katz , and Vincent Brooks — January 19, 2023

Recommendations on North Korea Policy and Extended Deterrence
Report by John J. Hamre , Joseph S. Nye Jr. , Victor Cha , and Katrin Fraser Katz — January 19, 2023

North Korea Policy & Extended Deterrence
Digital Report by John J. Hamre , Joseph S. Nye Jr. , Victor Cha , and Katrin Fraser Katz — January 19, 2023

The Burgeoning North Korea Missile Threat
Report by Victor Cha and Katrin Fraser Katz — April 29, 2022

North Korea’s Covid-19 Lockdown: Current Status and Road Ahead
Report by Victor Cha , Katrin Fraser Katz , and J. Stephen Morrison — March 9, 2022

JoongAng Ilbo-CSIS Forum 2021
Event by John J. Hamre , Victor Cha , and Michael J. Green , Bonny Lin , Katrin Fraser Katz , Hong Seok-Hyun , Wi Sung-Lac , Kim Sung-Han , Yun Byung-Se , Song Min-Soon , Park Myung-Lim , Shin Kak-Soo , Koh Yu-hwan — December 13, 2021

CSIS Commission on the Korean Peninsula: Recommendations for the U.S.-Korea Alliance
Event by John J. Hamre , Joseph S. Nye Jr. , Victor Cha , Michael J. Green , Katrin Fraser Katz , Sue Mi Terry , General Vincent Brooks , Wendy Cutler , Randall Schriver , and Kathleen Stephens — March 22, 2021

Online Event: Korea Chair “The Capital Cable” #2 with Robert King & Katrin Katz
Event by Victor Cha , Mark Lippert , Robert R. King , Katrin Fraser Katz , and Sue Mi Terry — May 21, 2020

After Kim Jong Un
Newsletter by Katrin Fraser Katz and Victor Cha — May 18, 2020

Revenge Politics
Podcast Episode by H. Andrew Schwartz , Victor Cha , and Katrin Fraser Katz — August 23, 2019
