ADVISORY BOARD
Hee-Eun Kim
President & CEO, Center for Asia Pacific Strategy
Hee-Eun Kim is the Founder, President, and CEO of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy (CAPS), a Washington DC-based international security think tank providing policy recommendations regarding present and future threats to the security and stability of the Asia Pacific region.
Ms. Kim received her bachelor’s degree in political science and her Master’s degree in International Relations (Foreign Policy and National Security) from SungKyunKwan University in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
From 2007 through 2008, Ms. Kim worked at the Gyeonggi Research Institute, a Korean-based think-tank overseeing research on the US-ROK Alliance and U.S. Forces Korea.
From 2009 through 2011, Ms. Kim served as the senior manager of an exchange program between the U.S. and the ROK at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education — where she originated a pilot program to include North Korean student defectors in the exchange program. From 2011 through 2012, Ms. Kim served on the staff of the Senior Secretary of Foreign Policy and National Security in South Korea for the Office of the President, responsible for writing the monthly internal Think-Tank Report.
In 2012, she joined the staff of United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, and U.S. Forces Korea, located in Seoul. In this post, she began as International Relations Officer at the Multi-national Logistics Division — ascending to the position of Chief of United Nations Command (UNC), Logistics Branch.
In 2016, Ms. Kim was appointed Deputy Director of Political-Military Engagement, as part of the Commander’s Strategic Initiatives Group for the U.S. four-star Commander of United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, and U.S. Forces Korea — where she provided direct support to the Commander and leadership group as senior Political/Military Advisor.
In 2020, Ms. Kim established the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy in Washington DC as a non-governmental and multinational think-tank. More recently, she was invited to join the Advisory Board for the Economic Conflict & Competition Research Group at King’s College London.
Markus Garlauskas
Director, Indo-Pacific Security Initiative
Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security
ATLANTIC COUNCIL
Markus Garlauskas is Director of the Indo-Pacific Security Initiative of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. As such, he leads the efforts focused on conflict and nuclear deterrence, United States strategy, and building cooperation with allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region.
Mr. Garlauskas has served in the U.S. government for nearly twenty years. He was appointed to the Senior National Intelligence Service as the National Intelligence Officer (NIO) for North Korea on the National Intelligence Council from July 2014 to June 2020. As NIO, he led the U.S. intelligence community’s strategic analysis on North Korea issues and expanded analytic outreach to non-government experts. He also provided direct analytic support to top-level policy deliberations, including the presidential transition, as well as the Singapore and Hanoi summits with North Korea.
Mr. Garlauskas also served for a period of twelve years overseas at the headquarters of United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command and U.S. Forces Korea in Seoul. His staff assignments there included Chief of the Intelligence Estimates Branch and Director of the Strategy Division. For his service in Korea, he received the Joint Civilian Distinguished Service Award, the highest civilian award from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Garlauskas holds a BA in History from Kent State University. He earned a Master’s Degree from Georgetown University’s Security Studies graduate program, where he is now an adjunct professor.
Lt. General (Ret.) Daniel Bolger, Ph.D.
Military Historian
Dept. of History, North Carolina State University
Lt. General (Ret.) Daniel P. Bolger served 35 years in the U.S. Army, leading soldiers at every echelon from platoon through division — to include command of the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team in Iraq in 2005-06, command of the 1st Cavalry Division in Baghdad, Iraq in 2009-10, and command of NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan in 2011-13. His military awards include five Bronze Star medals (one for valor) and the Combat Action Badge.
General Bolger received his commission from The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina in 1978 and his master's degree and doctorate in history from the University of Chicago in 1986. He was honored to teach history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York from 1986-89.
The author of ten books and numerous articles on military and historical matters, he is also a columnist for Army magazine. He is the author of Scenes From An Unfinished war: Low-Intensity Conflict in Korea 1966-1969. He has taught history at North Carolina State University since 2013.
Lt. General (Ret.) Michael Tucker
Former Commander of the 2nd Infantry Division
Lieutenant General (Ret.) Michael S. Tucker was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and entered active duty as a private in 1972. In his forty-four years of active service, General Tucker served as the Commanding General, 2nd Infantry Division, Republic of Korea; Commanding General, First Army, located at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois; Chief of Operations ISAF-NATO in Kabul, Afghanistan; and Commander, 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, Friedberg, Germany — including deployments in support of OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM.
Following his retirement, LTG Tucker performed Senior Mentor duties for the US Army Mission Command Training Program training 18 Division and Corps Commanders. He has returned to South Korea multiple times in this capacity to train and mentor 2nd Infantry Division and 8th Army Commanding Generals. In June 2011, LTG Tucker received the Order of National Security Merit Cheonsu Medal from the President of the Republic of Korea, Lee Myung-bak for distinguished service to the Republic of Korea and for contributions in strengthening the US-ROK Alliance.
LTG Tucker holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Psychology from the University of Maryland, a Master of Science degree in Public Administration from Shippensburg University, and a Master of Military Arts and Science degree from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.