Marcus Noland is the Deputy Director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a Senior Fellow at the East-West Center. He was a Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President of the United States, and has held research or teaching positions at Yale University, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Southern California, Tokyo University, Saitama University (now the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies), the University of Ghana, and the Korea Development Institute. His book, "Avoiding the Apocalypse: the Future of the Two Koreas," won the prestigious Ohira Memorial Prize. His latest book, co-authored with Haggard, is "Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea."