{"id":956,"date":"2011-07-14T16:06:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T16:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?page_id=956"},"modified":"2025-11-16T13:39:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T13:39:36","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

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Emanuel Pastreich serves as the president of the Asia Institute (asia-institute.org), a think tank that builds bridges between individuals in Asia and around the world to respond to the greatest challenges of our time: climate change, the impact of technological change on human society, the rapidly shifting nature of international relations, and the spread of a culture of anti-intellectualism.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Asia Institute has offices in Washington D.C., Seoul (Republic of Korea), Bankok (Thailand), and Tokyo (Japan).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

He was\u00a0 independent candidate for President of the United States who ran officially as a candidate in the Green Party US until October, 2023. His collection of campaign speeches “I shall Fear No Evil” <\/a>(September, 2020) has been translated into 13 languages and sections have been translated into another twenty languages.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

He also serves as associate at the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University and as a researcher at the academic council at CCG (Center for China and Globalization) in Beijing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Pastreich has written articles about the environment, technology, globalization, international relations and business in Asia for such journals as Japan Focus, Korea Times, Foreign Policy in Focus & the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies and Global Asia. He writes frequently on East Asian politics, culture and international relations for Foreign Policy in Focus and for his blog, green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares. He writes in Chinese primarily for Duowei and Guanchazhe, in Japanese for Huffington Post Japan and in Korean for Pressian, JoongAng Ilbo and \u201cThe Tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Pastreich started his work in international relations as Director of the policy think tank KORUS House (2005-2007) at the Korean Embassy in Washington D.C. in 2005. The seminar series that he ran at the Korean Embassy became a central location for the discussion of policy related to Northeast Asia for two years.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

He also served as the editor-in-chief of the official online newspaper produced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs \u201cDynamic Korea.\u201d Under Pastreich\u2019s leadership, Dynamic Korea expanded to be a critical source of objective analysis on contemporary issues in Korea, and across Asia, to a degree rare for a government publication.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Pastreich was appointed as advisor to Lee Wan-goo, the governor of Chungnam Province in the Republic of Korea in 2007 where he worked on international affairs with local government. He also did similar consulting work for Daejeon City, Gwangju City and Seoul.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

He focused primarily on science and technology from 2009, as adviser to t he president of Daedeok Innopolis, Korea\u2019s premier technology cluster located around Korea’s main science university KAIST.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

He wrote extensively on science policy and his research projects together with the Korea Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology, the Korea Institute for Nuclear Safety, the Korea Institute for Geoscience and Materials, the Korea Research Institute for Standards and Science and Seoul National University. established him as a major figure in science policy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

He was co-founder with Professor Yang Jiwon of KAIST of the Daejeon Environment Forum, a regular meeting of experts in the environmental sciences in the Daedeok Cluster with officials of Daejeon City and other citizens groups for discussions about making the city more sustainable. He continues to work on environment and climate change at the Asia Institute today.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Pastreich started his career as an assistant professor of Japanese literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1998-2005). He also served as an associate professor at Kyunghee University (2011-2018). He has taught at Harvard University, George Washington University, and the Korean Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Pastreich received a B.A. in Chinese literature from Yale University (1987), a Master\u2019s Degree in comparative culture from the University of Tokyo (1992) and a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University (1997). He studied abroad at National Taiwan University (1984-85) and Korea University (1998).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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He is fluent in English, Chinese, Japanese, French and Korean.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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