ICIT Welcomes Erin L. Murphy, Managing Director for Asia, Redpoint Advisors as a New ICIT Fellow

Erin L. Murphy has spent her career in several public and private sector roles and more than two decades working in the Indo-Pacific. She is currently the Managing Director for Asia at Redpoint Advisors, a global intelligence firm. Prior to Redpoint, she was the deputy director for the Chair on India and Emerging Asia Economics and senior fellow of Emerging Asia Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In this role, she focused her research on economic security and critical infrastructure, particularly subsea cables in which she has authored several reports and contributed analysis to news and media outlets. From 2007 to 2012, Murphy served as an analyst on Asian political and foreign policy issues at the Central Intelligence Agency. She returned to government from 2020 to 2022 as director for the Indo-Pacific at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), overseeing a multibillion-dollar pipeline focused on infrastructure, energy, digital, and healthcare investments and supported DFC engagement in multilateral initiatives. From 2013 to 2020, she founded and led a boutique advisory firm focused on Myanmar and emerging economies in Southeast Asia. 

Murphy received her master’s degree in Japan studies and international economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and her bachelor’s degree in international relations and Spanish from Tufts University. She was also a 2017–2018 Hitachi international affairs fellow in Japan with the Council on Foreign Relations and a Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program assistant language teacher from 2001 to 2003 in Saga, Japan. Murphy is also the author of Burmese Haze: US Policy and Myanmar’s Opening—and Closing (Association for Asian Studies, 2022).

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