Erin Murphy is the deputy director for the Chair on India and Emerging Asia Economics and senior fellow of Emerging Asia Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In this role, she focuses her research on bridging private capital and public initiatives to power strategic infrastructure investments in the Indo-Pacific. She has spent her career in several public and private sector roles and more than two decades working in the Indo-Pacific. From 2007 to 2012, Murphy served as an analyst on Asian political and foreign policy issues at the Central Intelligence Agency. She returned to government from 2020 to 2022 as director for the Indo-Pacific at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), overseeing a multibillion-dollar pipeline focused on infrastructure, energy, digital, and healthcare investments and supported DFC engagement in initiatives such as the Trilateral Infrastructure Partnership, the Quad, G7 Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment, and the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. From 2013 to 2020, she founded and led a boutique advisory firm focused on Myanmar and emerging economies in Southeast Asia. Murphy received her master’s degree in Japan studies and international economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and her bachelor’s degree in international relations and Spanish from Tufts University.