Dr Edward Howell is a Lecturer in Politics at Christ Church, University of Oxford. His research expertise focuses on the politics and international relations of North Korea, the Korean Peninsula, and East Asia. He is the only researcher across the University conducting research on contemporary North Korea, its domestic politics, and foreign relations. Dr Howell specialises in North Korea’s domestic and foreign policy, particularly its nuclear programme, and the relations between North Korea, the US, and wider international community.

He is a Korea Foundation Fellow at Chatham House, as well as a contributing writer at The Economist, The Spectator, The Telegraph, and The Economic Intelligence Unit. In May of last year, he released his first book, North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order: When Bad Behaviour Pays, which was published by the Oxford University Press.