Haggard, Stephan is the Krause Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, and director of the School's Korea-Pacific Program (KPP). Haggard received his PhD in political science from Berkeley in 1983 and taught in the department of government at Harvard University from 1983 to 1991. Haggard is the author of Pathways from the Periphery (1990), The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions (with Robert Kaufman, 1995), The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis (2000), and Development, Democracy, and Welfare States (2008, with Robert Kaufman). He has recently turned his attention to North Korea in work with Marcus Noland that includes Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform (2007), Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea (2011), and Engaging North Korea: The Role of Economic Statecraft (2011).