Mansfield Center Advisory Board
Former Governer of the State of Montana
President and CEO, ALPS Corporation
Government Relations Director, The Washington Companies
President, Radio Free Asia
National Correspondent, Newsy
Consumer and Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs Ayco; Liaison, Mansfield Foundation Board of Directors
Former Executive Director, Montana Democratic Party
Regents Professor Emeritus; Founding Director, Mansfield Center
President and CEO, Voter Participation Center and the Center for Voter Information
Founder, Frontier Angel Fund and Head of Community Engagement, Two Bear Capital
Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University
Chief Operating Officer and Partner of EisnerAmper
UM Faculty Affiliate in Economics and Nonresident Senior Associate in Economics for the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Designer, Community Advocate, Business Advisor
Founder of ABMJ Consulting, Research Associate at the Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities at the University of Montana
Professor Emeritus, Political Science; Former Mansfield Center Executive Director
Mansfield Fellows
Robert McCoy
Geopolitics in Northeast Asia, Specializing in North Korea
Contact
- primemccoy@charter.net
Personal Summary
Robert E. McCoy writes and speaks on geopolitical events and international affairs in East Asia, particularly North Korea and its relations with other players in the region. During a twenty-year career in the U.S. Air Force as an intelligence professional, he lived in East Asia for more than fourteen years. Subsequently, he has published over 150 political analyses and commentaries in various journals focusing on Asia. He has been interviewed by American and overseas news outlets for his views on regional affairs, and his analyses on North Korea have been officially cited by foreign governments.
Education
- Basic Korean Language and Culture Studies, Yale University – Institute of Far Eastern Languages, 1962-1963
- Initial Intelligence Indoctrination and Signals Intelligence Training, U.S. Air Force, 1963-1964
- Intermediate Korean Language and Culture Studies, Defense Language Institute – West Coast Branch, 1970-1971
- BGS in Psychology and Asian Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha, earned in 1979
- Graduate Studies in Human Relations, University of Oklahoma – Overseas Division, 1980-1982
- MGA in Management Information Systems, University of Maryland – College Park, earned in 1985
Languages:
- Korean (no longer fluent)