AsPr Jay Song

Jay is Hon Associate Professor at the Research School of Management of the ANU College of Business and Economics at the Australian National University. Prior to her current position, she was Korea Foundation Associate Professor and Director of the Korean STudies Research Hub at the University of Melbourne. Jay also served as Deputy Editor for Asian Studies Review. Jay has won multiple grants including an Australian Research Council Discovery Project on Korean Migration to Australia. She is the author of Human Rights Discourse in North Korea: Post-colonial, Marxist and Confucian Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2010) and peer-reviewed academic articles.

In addition to her academic achievements, Jay has also held various professional positions in the UK, the US, Switzerland and Australia, including program director of migration at the Lowy Institute (Sydney), Global Ethics Fellow of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (New York), Associate Fellow of Chatham House (London), and Consultant for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (Geneva).

Jay has completed her PhD in Politics and International Relations (Cambridge, UK). Her current research focuses on Korean migration to Australia, Korea-Australia relations and North Korea.