Wrenn Yennie Lindgren

Dr. Wrenn YENNIE LINDGREN is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of Center for Asian Research at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), as well as an Associate Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Her main areas of expertise include: international relations in East Asia and the Indo Pacific, the politics and foreign policy of Japan, security issues in the Asia Pacific, and Asia-Arctic diplomacy. She has published extensively on these topics and is a regular contributor to public debate internationally and in Norway. Wrenn currently leads the research project Roads to Power? The political effects of infrastructure projects in Asia (ROADS) , funded by The Research Council of Norway and the research project The New ‘Geography of Danger’: Japan’s Shifting Role in Regional Defence and Global Security, funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Defence, and is also part of the leadership of the Norwegian Centre for Geopolitics.