Speaker biographies
Megan Davy is a research assistant in foreign and defense policy studies at AEI. Her research areas include demography, immigration, and trade and economic development in Latin America.
Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at AEI and is senior adviser to the National Bureau of Asian Research in Seattle. 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 the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. State Department, USAID, and the 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 of 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 Powers (National Bureau of Asian Research, 2001) and, most recently, The North Korean Economy: Between Crisis & Catastrophe (Transaction, 2007).
Tod Lindberg is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is editor of Policy Review, Hoover’s Washington, D.C.-based bimonthly journal. Mr. Lindberg is the author of The Political Teachings of Jesus, a philosophical analysis of Jesus’s teachings about secular affairs (HarperCollins, 2007). He is a contributing editor of The Weekly Standard and is frequently heard as an analyst on National Public Radio. He is the editor of Beyond Paradise and Power: Europe, America and the Future of a Troubled Partnership (Routledge, 2005) and co-editor (with Derek Chollet and David Shorr) of the forthcoming Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide (Routledge, December 2007). Mr. Lindberg’s areas of interest are political theory, international relations, national security policy, and American politics. He is also general editor (with Peter Berkowitz) of the book series Hoover Studies in Politics, Economics, and Society, published in association with Rowman and Littlefield. Mr. Lindberg is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Barbara Boyle Torrey is a visiting fellow at the Population Reference Bureau. She was previously the executive director of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the National Research Council. She was also chief of the Center for International Research at the Census Bureau and an economist at the Office of Management and Budget. Ms. Torrey has edited two books and published a number of articles on international population and income trends.
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