Ms. Catharin E. Dalpino
Associate Professor and Director of Thai Studies,
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Catharin Dalpino is a Visiting Associate Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where she teaches Southeast Asian politics, security and international relations. She is also Director of the Aspen Institute's Advocacy and Exchange program on Agent Orange/dioxin in U.S.-Vietnam relations and a non-resident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Asia Programs, specializing in Southeast Asia. She has served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (1993-1997); a fellow at the Brookings Institution (1997-2003); a career officer at The Asia Foundation; and a policy analyst at the World Bank. She has published three books on U.S. policy toward Asia, as well as numerous articles and op-eds, and has testified frequently before Congress on U.S. relations with Southeast Asia.