Kent Boydston

Kent Boydston was a research analyst at the Peterson Institute for International Economics from May 2015 to November 2017. He worked with Executive Vice President and Director of Studies Marcus Noland on issues related to the economies of East Asia and the Korean peninsula. Boydston has three years of experience working and studying in Korea, most recently as a Boren Fellow, and was a Rosenthal Fellow at the Office of Korean Affairs at the US Department of State in 2013.

Boydston earned his master's degree in international affairs, specializing in international economics and international politics, from the University of California, San Diego, and his bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, Irvine.