Mi Lim Kim is a PhD candidate at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. Before she started her PhD study in 2022, Mi Lim was a senior researcher at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), where she conducted research on economies of Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos and Korea-ASEAN economic relations. Mi Lim received her M.A. degree in Economics from the Yonsei University and her B.A. degrees in Political Science and Economics from the Ewha Womans University.