*Doeun Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in the UCLA Political Science Department. Beginning in July 2025, she will be a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Niehaus Center, Princeton University. Her research interests lie in international political economy. Specifically, she examines how interest groups influence foreign economic policies. Her work is published in International Interactions.

She is a member of the Practical Causal Inference Lab and an MS student in the Statistics and Data Science Department at UCLA. She received her MA in International Relations and her BA in International Relations and International Cooperation and Development Studies from Seoul National University.

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