Senior Foreign Service Officer Yuri Kim will be a guest speaker at the University of Guam on Thursday, August 3, 2017, at 5:00 p.m. in Room #207 in the Humanities and Social Sciences Building on the UOG campus. Kim will speak about her experiences working in foreign service and international relation

Born in Korea, Kim immigrated with her family to Guam in 1974. She is a graduate of Academy of Our Lady of Guam.

The event is hosted by the University of Guam Political Science Student Association.

 

About Yuri Kim

Yuri Kim is a Senior Foreign Service Officer who has worked on key foreign policy and national security challenges across multiple regions, including China, North Korea, Turkey, Iraq, and NATO.  She was Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of State, 2015-2017.  Immediately prior, she was Director of the Office of European Security and Political-Military Affairs, responsible for U.S. policy concerning NATO, U.S. and NATO force posture, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and other transatlantic security policy issues.  She was Political Counselor in Ankara (2011-2014), where she was responsible for strengthening bilateral, NATO, and regional cooperation with Turkey, in particular in relation to developments in Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

As Political Counselor in Baghdad (2009-2010), she engaged Iraqi leaders on the full spectrum of internal, bilateral, and regional issues.  She also worked with senior U.S. defense officials to plan and execute the transition of critical tasks, responsibilities, and budgets from U.S. Forces Iraq to American and Iraqi civilian entities.  Prior to that assignment, she was Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and a member of the U.S. delegation to the Six-Party Talks aimed at North Korea denuclearization.  She has also served in Seoul, Tokyo, and Beijing, and in the Executive Secretariat supporting Secretary Colin Powell. 

Yuri Kim holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.Phil. from Cambridge University.  She speaks Korean, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, and Turkish.