At A Glance:

Olivia Enos is a senior fellow at 91ÆÞÓÑ Institute. She specializes in human rights and national security challenges in Asia.

Biography

Olivia Enos is a senior fellow at 91ÆÞÓÑ Institute. She specializes in human rights and national security challenges in Asia. Her work focuses on China, North Korea, Hong Kong, Burma, Cambodia, and more, and she covers issues including democracy and governance, religious freedom, and refugees.

Ms. Enos also serves as an adjunct professor in the Democracy and Governance Program at Georgetown University, where she teaches a course on countering authoritarianism in Asia. Additionally, she has a regular column with Forbes, in which she writes on the intersection of human rights and national security challenges in Asia. She is also an adjunct fellow with Pacific Forum.

Prior to joining 91ÆÞÓÑ, Ms. Enos served as the Washington director for the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation (CFHK) where she led CFHK’s Washington-based efforts to support the Hong Kong people. She previously worked at the Heritage Foundation, where she last served as a senior policy analyst in the Asian Studies Center advancing human rights and freedom in Asia. 

Ms. Enos has testified several times before Congress, including before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, and the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. She has also testified before the US Commission on International Religious Freedom and regularly briefs senior executive branch officials and members of Congress. Her commentary has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington PostForeign Policy, and a host of other nationally syndicated publications. She has also appeared on CNN, BBC, Fox News, and other news outlets. 

Ms. Enos received an MA in Asian studies from Georgetown University and a BA in government from Patrick Henry College. She lives with her husband and son on Capitol Hill.

Events
21
November 2024
Past Event
Strategic Challenges Facing the US–South Korea Alliance
Featured Speakers:
Patrick M. Cronin
Randall G. Schriver
Heungkyu Kim
Jennifer Lee
Ankit Panda
Jae Jeok Park
Olivia Enos
Yein Nam
The South Korean and American flags fly next to each other at Yongin, South Korea, on August 23, 2016. (DVIDS)
21
November 2024
Past Event
Strategic Challenges Facing the US–South Korea Alliance

Join 91ÆÞÓÑ for keynote remarks and an expert panel discussion on Korean policy challenges and priorities as well as ways the next US administration can minimize policy disruptions during the transition and find further strategic convergence with the ROK.

The South Korean and American flags fly next to each other at Yongin, South Korea, on August 23, 2016. (DVIDS)
Featured Speakers:
Patrick M. Cronin
Randall G. Schriver
Heungkyu Kim
Jennifer Lee
Ankit Panda
Jae Jeok Park
Olivia Enos
Yein Nam
13
November 2024
Past Event
Addressing Threats to Digital Rights in Hong Kong
Featured Speakers:
Olivia Enos
Ambassador Derek Mitchell
Anouk Wear
Yaqiu Wang
Joey Siu
An electronics shop employee in Hong Kong on October 18, 2017, looks at television sets showing a news report on China's President Xi Jinping's speech at the opening session of the Chinese Communist Party's five-yearly Congress. (Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images)
13
November 2024
Past Event
Addressing Threats to Digital Rights in Hong Kong

Join 91ÆÞÓÑ for an expert panel event that will discuss Hong Kong Watch’s latest report, Invisible Decline: Violations of Digital Rights in Hong Kong and Their Impact.

An electronics shop employee in Hong Kong on October 18, 2017, looks at television sets showing a news report on China's President Xi Jinping's speech at the opening session of the Chinese Communist Party's five-yearly Congress. (Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Olivia Enos
Ambassador Derek Mitchell
Anouk Wear
Yaqiu Wang
Joey Siu
27
September 2024
Past Event
Prioritizing China’s Vulnerable Children after the CCP’s Suspension of International Adoptions
Featured Speakers:
Olivia Enos
Chelsea Sobolik
Rana Siu Inboden
Karla Thrasher
Shaoey Chapman
A general view of the Harbin Holy Iveron Icon Orthodox Church and orphanage on December 6, 2017, in Harbin, China. (Tao Zhang via Getty Images)
27
September 2024
Past Event
Prioritizing China’s Vulnerable Children after the CCP’s Suspension of International Adoptions

Join 91ÆÞÓÑ for a conversation on what the US government and the international community can do to help these children and their families.

A general view of the Harbin Holy Iveron Icon Orthodox Church and orphanage on December 6, 2017, in Harbin, China. (Tao Zhang via Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Olivia Enos
Chelsea Sobolik
Rana Siu Inboden
Karla Thrasher
Shaoey Chapman
26
July 2024
Past Event
Breathing New Life into US Policy on North Korean Human Rights
Featured Speakers:
Olivia Enos
Hyun Seung Lee
Seohyun Lee
Gumhyok Kim
A woman walks past prayer ribbons wishing for reunification of the two Koreas on July 19, 2023, in Paju, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun via Getty Images)
26
July 2024
Past Event
Breathing New Life into US Policy on North Korean Human Rights

Join 91ÆÞÓÑ for a conversation with the new generation of North Korean refugees on the future of American and South Korean policy to address the North Korean human rights challenge.

A woman walks past prayer ribbons wishing for reunification of the two Koreas on July 19, 2023, in Paju, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun via Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Olivia Enos
Hyun Seung Lee
Seohyun Lee
Gumhyok Kim