Christopher Green
PANEL SPEAKER Christopher Green Senior Consultant, Korean Peninsula Christopher Green leads Crisis Group’s work on Korea, delivering timely analysis of inter-Korean, alliance and regional concerns.
PANEL SPEAKER
Christopher Green
Senior Consultant, Korean Peninsula
Christopher Green leads Crisis Group’s work on Korea, delivering timely analysis of inter-Korean, alliance and regional concerns. He worked for Crisis Group in an identical role from 2017-2019, then returned in 2021.
Christopher Green lectures on Korea at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Before joining Crisis Group, he spent more than a decade on the Korean Peninsula, first and foremost as manager of the international department of Daily NK, a media company that reports inside news from North Korea via a network of citizen journalists inside the country. He has published widely on North Korean politics, economy and culture over a period of more than 25 years and is the translator of the memoir of Hwang Jang-yop, a senior North Korean official who defected to the South in 1997.
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