Speaker biographies
Michael Cromartie is the chair of U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. He is the vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., where he also directs the Evangelicals in Civic Life program and the Media and Religion program. He has contributed book reviews and articles to First Things, Books and Culture, the Washington Times, The Reformed Journal, Insight, Christianity Today, Stewardship Journal, and World. He is the editor of twelve books on religion and politics including, including, most recently, A Public Faith: Evangelicals and Civic Engagement (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), A Preserving Grace: Protestants, Catholics, and Natural Law (Eerdmans, 1997), and Caesar's Coin Revisited: Christians and the Limits of Government (Eerdmans, 1996). He is the host of Radio America's weekly show "Faith and Life," an adjunct professor at Reformed Theological Seminary, and an advisory editor for Christianity Today. He has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, including National Public Radio, CNN, ABC News, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and broadcasts on MSNBC and PBS.
Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at AEI and is senior adviser to the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) in Seattle, Wash. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Korea Economic Institute of America, and is a founding member of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. Mr. Eberstadt regularly consults for governmental and international organizations, including such institutions as the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. State Department, USAID, and World Bank. He has published over 300 studies and articles in scholarly and popular journals, mainly on topics in demography, international development, and East Asian security. His dozen-plus books and monographs include The Poverty of Communism (Transaction, 1988), The Population of North Korea (Institute for East Asian Studies, 1992), The Tyranny of Numbers (AEI Press, 1995), The End of North Korea (AEI Press, 1999), Korea's Future and the Great Power (National Bureau of Asian Research, 2001) and the forthcoming North Korea's Economy Between Crisis and Catastrophe.
David Hawk is a prominent human rights investigator and advocate. He is a former director of the Cambodia office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. During the early 1990s, he performed investigations in Rwanda for the U.S. Committee for Refugees. He established and directed the Cambodia Documentation Commission, located in New York, in connection with the UN transnational peacekeeping in Cambodia. In the early and mid 1980s, Mr. Hawk investigated and analyzed the Khmer Rouge genocide in association with the Columbia University Center for the Study of Human Rights. He is also a former executive director of Amnesty International/USA, and has served on the advisory board of Human Rights Watch/Asia. In 2003, Mr. Hawk wrote Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea's Prison Camps - Prisoner Testimony and Satellite Photographs for the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea.
Dr. Sung-Yoon Lee is the Kim Koo Research Associate at the Korea Institute, Harvard University. Dr. Kim holds a Ph.D. from Tufts University, where he served as an adjunct professor for eight years. In 2003, Dr. Lee was commissioned to translate from Korean into English North Korea's first written proposal to the United States since October 2002 for resolving the nuclear issue. Dr. Lee is a frequent commentator on the BBC, NPR, CNN, ABC, NBC, FOX TV, Bloomberg News, Voice of America, and Radio Free Asia. His essays and opinions have been published in the Los Angeles Times, Asia Times, The Weekly Standard, and numerous national and international newspapers. His most recent publications include "Dependence and Defiance: Historical Dilemmas in U.S.-Korea Relations" (Korea Policy Review, Harvard University, Summer 2006, forthcoming), and "The Mythical Nuclear Kingdom of North Korea" (The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Summer/Fall 2005).
Jay Lefkowitz serves as the president's special envoy on human rights in North Korea. He is also a senior partner at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, where he serves clients in trial and appellate litigation. Previously, he served as deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy and as general counsel in the Office of Management and Budget for President George W. Bush. He was also director of cabinet affairs and deputy executive secretary to the Domestic Policy Council for President George H. W. Bush. He has served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Commission and as a delegate to the International Conference on Anti-Semitism. He is the author of numerous essays about law, politics, and religion, which have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, The Public Interest, The Jerusalem Report, Commentary and other publications.
Tom Malinowski has been the Washington advocacy director for Human Rights Watch since April 2001, where he is responsible for the organization’s overall advocacy effort with the United States government. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, he was special assistant to President Bill Clinton and senior director for foreign policy speechwriting at the National Security Council. From 1994 to 1998, he was a speechwriter for Secretaries of State Christopher and Albright, and a member of the State Department Policy Planning Staff. He has also worked for the Ford Foundation and as a legislative aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He appears frequently as a radio, television, and op-ed commentator on U.S. human rights policy worldwide.
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