Ramon Pacheco Pardo

Ramon Pacheco Pardo is the KF-VUB Korea Chair at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS), Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is also Professor of International Relations at King’s College London. Professor Pacheco Pardo is also Adjunct Fellow (Non-Resident) with the Korea Chair at CSIS, Scientific Council Member at Elcano Royal Institute, Steering Committee Member at CSCAP EU, Advisory Committee Member at Jeju Forum and Advisory Committee Member at the Reset Korea Campaign of JoongAng Ilbo. He has held visiting positions at Korea University, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Melbourne University.

His publications include the books North Korea: Survival of a Political Dynasty (Agenda Publishing, 2024), Korea: A New History of South & North (Yale University Press, 2023; with Victor Cha), South Korea’s Grand Strategy: Making Its Own Destiny (Columbia University Press, 2023), Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop (Hurst and Oxford University Press, 2022) and North Korea-US Relations from Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un (Routledge, 2019).

Professor Pacheco Pardo has participated in track 1.5 and 2 dialogues with China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea and the United States. He has testified before the European Parliament and consulted and advised NATO, the OECD and the governments of Canada, the European Union, South Korea, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States as well as several private firms, among others. Professor Pacheco Pardo is a regular columnist with JoongAng Ilbo. He is also a frequent media commentator on North East Asian and affairs and Europe-East Asia and Europe-Indo-Pacific relations.

List of publications (on VUB publications platform)