Ellen Frost is a Visiting Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the National Defense University's Institute of National Strategic Studies in Washington, DC. Her most recent book is Asia's New Regionalism.

Frost served in the U.S. government as Counselor to the U.S. Trade Representative (1993-95), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Economic and Technology Affairs (1977-81), various positions in the Treasury Department (1974-77) and the State Department (1963), and Legislative Assistant in the U.S. Senate (1972-74). During the 1980s she worked for two multinational corporations. In addition to her new book, she is the author of For Richer, For Poorer: The New US-Japan Relationship (1987) and Transatlantic Trade: A Strategic Agenda (1997), co-editor of The Global Century: Globalization and National Security (2001), and author of numerous articles and chapters. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute of Strategic Studies, the U.S. committee of CSCAP (Council on Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific), and the Public Diplomacy Council. She also does volunteer work in southeast Washington.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts in l945, Frost received a Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Harvard University, where she specialized in the politics and foreign policy of China; an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; and a B.A. magna cum laude from Radcliffe College, where she majored in international relations and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.