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Professor L. Gordon Flake is an internationally recognised specialist and an authority on the Indo-Pacific region. He is also the cousin of Republican Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ).

He is considered a leading expert on International relations between Australia, the US and Asia. He has previously served on the Board of the United States Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (USCSCAP) and as Co-Vice Chair of the Board of the US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. His expertise in the Korean Peninsula and North East Asia has been called on in relation to a number of major international news events  including the imprisonment of Australian Alex Sigley in North Korea.

Perth USAsia Centre
Professor Gordon Flake is the CEO of the Perth USAsia Centre, an international relations think tank, located at the University of Western Australia.

Early Life
He received his BA degree in Korean with a minor in international relations from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He completed his MA at the David M. Kennedy Centre for International and Area Studies and speaks both fluent Korean and Laotian.

Gordon Flake has served as Executive Director of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. He was a Senior Fellow and Associate Director of the Program on Conflict Resolution at The Atlantic Council of the United States. Prior to joining the Perth USAsia Centre as CEO, Gordon Flake served as Director for Research and Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute of America.