About Me

Matthew F. Fleming is a Ph.D. student in political science at Northeastern University and a Graduate Fellow at Northeastern’s Center for International Affairs and World Cultures. His research focuses on Indo-Pacific security, minilateralism, and strategic competition in Northeast Asia, with particular attention to U.S.-ROK-Japan trilateralism, visions and strategies for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific, and U.S. foreign relations with South Korea and Japan. He was selected as an inaugural NEXUS Fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States and previously held a Non-Resident James A. Kelly Korea Fellowship at Pacific Forum. In 2024, he served as a U.S. delegate to the inaugural U.S.-ROK-Japan Trilateral Global Leadership Youth Summit, a U.S. Department of State initiative led by the U.S. embassies in Seoul and Tokyo and hosted that year by the East-West Center. His research and policy experience includes work with the Indo-Pacific Strategy Team in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, the East Asia Institute, and the journals of the Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies. Fleming holds a Master of Global Affairs and Policy from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, where he specialized in international security and foreign policy, and a Master of Media and Governance from Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, where he focused on global governance and regional strategy.