Diana Park

Diana Park, a Technology and Geopolitics and Defense, Emerging Technology, and Strategy (DETS) Fellow at the Belfer Center, is a doctoral candidate in international relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. With a research focus at the intersection of 
international security studies and cybersecurity, her dissertation examines 
the impact of cyberspace on nonviolent civil resistance in authoritarian 
environments.

She brings extensive intelligence and foreign policy experience to her 
discipline, joining the Fletcher School after a career at the U.S. State 
Department, Treasury Department, and Office of the Secretary of Defense 
for Policy. Her interagency work and expertise in nuclear proliferation, East 
Asian security, and strategic cyber issues provide a policy-driven perspective
that defines her research approach. She is also a veteran of the United 
States military with more than a decade of service in the Navy Information 
Warfare Community, with tactical and operational experience in the Middle 
East, Asia, and Pacific Island Countries. She continues to serve in the Navy 
Reserves as an Indo-Pacific Foreign Area Officer.

Diana earned a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, 
graduated with a Master of Arts in Cybersecurity Technology from the 
University of Maryland, and completed a Bachelor of Science in Foreign 
Service from Georgetown University. She has previously held a Presidential 
Management Fellowship, a James A. Kelly Korean Studies Fellowship at the 
Pacific Forum, a Tillman Scholarship from the Pat Tillman Foundation, and a 
Doctoral Fellowship with the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.