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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.

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
22
July 2024
Past Event
Building a Strategy to Counter Hong Kong’s Role in Sanctions Evasion
Featured Speakers:
Olivia Enos
Samuel Bickett
Sunny Cheung
Moderator:
Shannon Van Sant
New construction and developments in Hong Kong, China. (Bob Henry/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
22
July 2024
Past Event
Building a Strategy to Counter Hong Kong’s Role in Sanctions Evasion

Experts will discuss new evidence of how the Chinese Communist Party is using Hong Kong to sow instability and conflict around the world and how the United States can better counter these illicit activities.

New construction and developments in Hong Kong, China. (Bob Henry/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Olivia Enos
Samuel Bickett
Sunny Cheung
Moderator:
Shannon Van Sant
13
June 2024
Past Event
Tackling the Uyghur Forced Labor Challenge
Featured Speakers:
Eric Choy
Kalbinur Gheni
John Pickel
Scott Flipse
Moderator:
Olivia Enos
An alleged detention facility in Artux in Kizilsu Prefecture in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region on July 19, 2023. (Photo by Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images)
13
June 2024
Past Event
Tackling the Uyghur Forced Labor Challenge

Join 91ÆÞÓÑ for a discussion on how the US and its partners can best strengthen efforts to tackle and combat Uyghur forced labor.

An alleged detention facility in Artux in Kizilsu Prefecture in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region on July 19, 2023. (Photo by Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Eric Choy
Kalbinur Gheni
John Pickel
Scott Flipse
Moderator:
Olivia Enos
25
April 2024
Past Event
Book Event: Tackling the China Challenge with Strength
Featured Speakers:
Michael Sobolik
Olivia Enos
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks at the podium at the Great Hall of People in Beijing, China, on October 23, 2022. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
25
April 2024
Past Event
Book Event: Tackling the China Challenge with Strength

Join 91ÆÞÓÑ for a conversation with author Michael Sobolik about Countering China’s Great Game.

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks at the podium at the Great Hall of People in Beijing, China, on October 23, 2022. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Michael Sobolik
Olivia Enos
15
December 2023
Past Event
Targeted: Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists under Threat in the US
Featured Speakers:
Frances Hui
Piero Tozzi
Moderator:
Olivia Enos
Hundreds gather in Times Square to rally in support of Hong Kong's "Umbrella Revolution" on October 1, 2014, in New York. (Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images)
15
December 2023
Past Event
Targeted: Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists under Threat in the US
Hundreds gather in Times Square to rally in support of Hong Kong's "Umbrella Revolution" on October 1, 2014, in New York. (Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Frances Hui
Piero Tozzi
Moderator:
Olivia Enos
29
November 2023
Past Event
Wrongfully Detained: Russia’s Attacks on American Journalists
Featured Speakers:
Pavel Butorin
Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin
Paul Beckett
Jeremy Hunt
Olivia Enos
Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty who was arrested on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent, attends a hearing to consider her pretrial detention in Kazan on October 20, 2023. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images)
29
November 2023
Past Event
Wrongfully Detained: Russia’s Attacks on American Journalists
Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty who was arrested on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent, attends a hearing to consider her pretrial detention in Kazan on October 20, 2023. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Pavel Butorin
Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin
Paul Beckett
Jeremy Hunt
Olivia Enos
15
November 2023
Past Event
Sell Out My Soul: The Impending Threats to Freedom of Religion or Belief in Hong Kong
Featured Speakers:
Benedict Rogers
Nina Shea
Nury Turkel
Olivia Enos
Moderator:
Miles Yu
St John's Cathedral in Hong Kong. (Getty Images)
15
November 2023
Past Event
Sell Out My Soul: The Impending Threats to Freedom of Religion or Belief in Hong Kong

Join 91ÆÞÓÑ Institute’s China Center for an expert panel with Benedict Rogers, cofounder and chief executive of Hong Kong Watch, to discuss his latest report on the impending threats to freedom of religion or belief in Hong Kong.

St John's Cathedral in Hong Kong. (Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Benedict Rogers
Nina Shea
Nury Turkel
Olivia Enos
Moderator:
Miles Yu