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Mansfield Foundation Staff
About Maureen &
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L. Gordon FlakeExecutive Director
Mr. Flake travels frequently to Japan, Korea, China and other countries in Asia as a conference participant and lecturer. He is a regular contributor on Korea issues in the U.S. and Asian press, and he has traveled to North Korea on four occasions. Mr. Flake has published extensively on policy issues in Asia. His most recent publication, entitled Paved with Good Intentions: The NGO Experience in North Korea, examines the impact of NGO and UN humanitarian relief efforts in North Korea after 1995.
Mr. Flake was born in Rehoboth, New Mexico. He received his B.A. degree in Korean with a minor in international relations from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He completed his M.A. at the David M. Kennedy Center for International and Area Studies, also at B.Y.U. His master's thesis was on the economic reforms in Laos. He lived in Korea for a number of years and speaks both fluent Korean and Laotian. He has seven young children and is married to Pakayvanh Sisoutham of Vientiane, Laos. 
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L.
Gordon Flake was appointed Executive Director in February 1999.
Prior to joining the Mansfield Foundation, he was a Senior Fellow
and Associate Director of the Program on Conflict Resolution at
The Atlantic Council of the United States. Before moving to The
Atlantic Council, he served as Director for Research and Academic
Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute of America.