Ross Medico is currently an International Economist in USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service Asia Pacific Division. Ross previously co-founded and co-managed the Korea Data and History Initiative at Johns Hopkins SAIS. He also completed a national security fellowship with the U.S. House of Representatives and a Fulbright English teaching fellowship in Taiwan, and worked on Korea policy at U.S. Embassy Seoul and the State Department’s Korea Desk as a graduate school intern. Ross received a bachelors degree from Stony Brook University, and a master of arts in conflict management and international economics from Johns Hopkins SAIS.