Dongyoun Cho

Biography

Dongyoun Cho is Senior Fellow for Advanced Technologies, National Security and Defence at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). Her work examines how strategic technologies, particularly quantum, artificial intelligence and cyber, are reshaping defence policy, deterrence, alliance dynamics and security governance across Europe and the Indo-Pacific. She develops analytical frameworks for governing dual-use technologies and strategic technology supply chains, including her work on chokepoint power and quantum criticality.

Before joining the IISS, she was a Senior Researcher in the Security and Technology Programme at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva, where she led the Innovations Dialogue and contributed to UN processes, including the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems. She also serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Military Studies at Seokyeong University, Seoul (on leave).

Earlier, Dongyoun served for 16 years as an intelligence officer in the Republic of Korea Army, retiring as a Major. She is a Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellow at Yale University and holds a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.