Jaehyeon Park is currently pursuing his PhD studies in urban planning at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include urban informal settlements, land governance, urban resilience, post-disaster recovery and drone-based counter-mapping in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Park earned a BS and MS in architecture from Seoul National University, South Korea. He also has professional experience as an urban researcher (at the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements), a community architect (at Community Organizations Development Institute, Thailand, and Community Architect Network Asia), and an international program associate (at CITYNET, Japan). He joined the Carnegie Council's Asia Dialogues program as one of the 2018 Pacific Delegates.