Marvin J. Park is a nonresident senior fellow in the Indo-Pacific Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He is a national security professional with experience in national-level policymaking, intelligence matters, and military operations throughout the Asia Pacific, especially Taiwan, Japan, and the Republic of Korea (ROK). Park served on the National Security Council as the director for Taiwan affairs from 2023 to 2024. He retired in 2025 as a US Navy captain with over twenty-five years of experience.

During his naval career, Park deployed to the Middle East and Asia Pacific multiple times with Patrol Squadron Nine and aboard USS Ronald Reagan; served as flag aide to Commander, Naval Forces Korea in Seoul; and was a P-3C naval flight officer instructor in Jacksonville, Florida. After transferring to the US Navy’s Foreign Area Officer community, he served multiple tours overseas collaborating with the United States’ closest allies and partners in northeast Asia as the US Navy liaison to the ROK Fleet Headquarters in Busan, South Korea, and naval attaché in Taipei, Taiwan. As a staff officer at the Office of the Secretary of Defense and on the Navy headquarters staff at the Pentagon, Park managed the US-ROK bilateral defense relationship and the US-ROK-Japan trilateral defense relationship and also implemented US-Taiwan defense policy.

Park is a graduate of the US Naval Academy and the Fletcher School at Tufts University.