Mirna Galic is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow in the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). She served as senior expert on East Asia at the United States Institute of Peace, leading projects on defense and deterrence related to China with a special focus on Japan and other key US allies. Galic previously worked in Tokyo as a Council on Foreign Relations-Hitachi International Affairs fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs, where she published research on Japan’s security reforms, its changing strategic posture, and its deepening relationship with NATO. Galic also spent six years as senior adviser for international partnerships at the US Department of State, where her duties included coordinating with officials from Japan and other ally and partner countries to advance US policy priorities and programs for Afghanistan. Prior to joining the Department of State, she served as a senior foreign policy adviser in the US Senate and as a special adviser on counterterrorism in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General at the United Nations. Galic has appeared in major media outlets such as Bloomberg, BBC News, NPR, Associated Press, CNN, Japan Times, Kyodo News, Mainichi Shimbun, South China Morning Post, Deutsche Welle, and Voice of America. She holds a Master of Public Affairs in international relations from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Science in environmental studies from Stanford University.