Meredith Jung-En Woo is a Senior Fellow at the University Design Institute and Special Advisor on International Strategy in the Office of the Provost, both at Arizona State University. She is a Political Scientist who formerly served as President of Sweet Briar College and directed the International Higher Education Support Program at the Open Society Foundation in London. She also served as the Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia.

Woo taught at Columbia University and Northwestern University as an assistant and associate professor. She then became a professor of political science at the University of Michigan, where she also served as the divisional dean of the social sciences. Her teaching and research interests include international political economy, economic development, East Asian politics, and U.S.-East Asian relations.

She has authored and edited seven books. They include Race to the Swift: State and Finance in Korean Industrialization (Columbia University Press, 1991); Past as Prelude: History in the Making of the New World Order (Westview Press, 1991); Capital Ungoverned: Liberalizing Finance in the Interventionist States (Cornell University Press, 1996), The Developmental State (Cornell University Press, 1999). She also published a book of essays titled Something New Under the Sun: Education at Mr. Jefferson’s University.

She was executive producer of Koryo Saram, The Unreliable People, a film about Stalin’s ethnic cleansing of Koreans during the Great Terror. It premiered at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, and won the Best Documentary Award from the National Film Board of Canada in 2008.