Invited Speakers
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AHN Donggyu
Professor, Department of Finance, Hallym University / Chairman, Gangwondo Autonomy Decentralization Committee
Republic of KoreaCloseParallel Session 3
AHN Donggyu
Professor, Department of Finance, Hallym University / Chairman, Gangwondo Autonomy Decentralization Committee
Republic of KoreaDr. Ahn, DongGyu is a professor of Hallym University since 1990, teaching Finance, Social Enterprise, and Business Ethics. He was actively involved in his university administration as Dean, Dean of Business Graduate School, and Senior Vice President (2107-2021).
His local engagement is diverse. He established Korea Decentralization Academy in 2003 and has been Director until now. Now he is a chairman of Kangwon Autonomy & Decentelrization Committee since 2020. He was initiating 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics as a chairperson of 2018 PyeongChang Finance Committee. He is also serving as a co-chairman of Korean Decenralization Movement.
His academic career is Seoul National University (BA, 1980), Duke University (MBA, 1983), Ohio State University (MA, 1985) and Ohio State University (Ph.D 1988). His professor career started from University of Otago, New Zealand in 1988-1990 and has anchored in Hallym University until now.
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Andrey BYSTRITSKIY
Chairman, Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion
RussiaClosePlenary Session
Andrey BYSTRITSKIY
Chairman, Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion
RussiaChairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Communications, Media and Design at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics, member of the Union of Writers
In 1985-1991, Andrey Bystritskiy was engaged in research as a Senior Fellow at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. He has been in the media industry since 1991, starting as the Head of the Audience Research Department of the All-Russia State Television and Radio Company (RTR), author and host of radio and television broadcasts. In 1993-1996, Andrey Bystritskiy headed sociological research at the Company. From 1996 to 1997, he was in charge of the "Society" Department at the Itogi (Russian Newsweek) magazine. In 1997-1998, Andrey Bystritskiy was Deputy Director General for Information at TV Tsentr. Between 1998 and 1999, he was the Producer of the Russian news service on BBC. In 1999, he joined the Organizing Committee of the Unofficial Moscow Festival as one of its Co-Chairs, he was also a member of the Editorial Board of the Moscow Alternative newspaper and Chairman of the Mayak State Radio Broadcasting Company (main information radio in Russia). In 2000, Bystritskiy became the Director General of the Vesti State Television Company (an entity of RTR).
From 2000 to 2008, he was Deputy Director General of RTR and the Director of the Department of Information Programmes of the Russia TV. In 2000-2013 Bystritskiy was a member of the Board of Directors and Vice President of international broadcasting company Euronews. Between 2005 and 2007, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Apologia monthly magazine. From 2008 to 2014, he was the Chairman of the Voice of Russia State Radio Company (Russian international broadcaster in 44 languages).
Andrey Bystritskiy has been at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics since 2001, as a Dean of the Faculty of Communications, Media and Design since 2014. Since 2008, he has been the head of the Council of the Heads of Government and Public Television and Radio Organizations of CIS Countries. Since 2014, Bystritskiy has been the Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club and the Chairman of the Public Supervisory Council of the Russian Ministry of Communications.
Andrey Bystritskiy is a Professor and PhD (Pedagogics, 1989). He is a member of the Union of Writers. In June 2007, he received the Order of Honour.
Andrey Bystritskiy is the author of books, including such works as Youth Subcultures and Russia's Intelligentsia During the Demise of the Soviet System (1991), and numerous publications in newspapers and magazines. -
BYUN Sangwook
General Site Manager, Dorasan Transit Office, Gaeseong Industrial District Foundation
Republic of KoreaCloseParallel Session 2
BYUN Sangwook
General Site Manager, Dorasan Transit Office, Gaeseong Industrial District Foundation
Republic of KoreaMr. Byun is a licensed architect and professional building engineer in Korea, as well as an expert of an inter(South & North)-Korean economic cooperation and North Korea development, who has participated such projects over 2 decades. After he graduated Hanyang Univ.(Dept. of architecture), Mr. Byun worked for Yegoen Architect OfficeTM and Samsung C&TTM and was mainly in charge of construction planning, design, and project management. He also won the design competition of designing Song-pa residence’s hall.
He worked for Hyundai AsanTM from 1999 to 2004, and has been working for Gaesung Industrial District Foundation since 2004.
During his 23 years of career, he had joined numbers of North Korea development projects, including Geumgang Mountain tour site and Gaesung Industrial District developments
From 1999 to 2004, he joined the Geumgang Mountain development project (Mt. Geumgang proj.) as a member of project management team. He mostly focused on construction planning and managing of main landmark projects such as Geumgang Mountain Hotel and Okryukwan restaurant. Aside from Mt. Geumgang proj., he also conducted several North Korea construction projects. The list of the projects includes: Mt. Geumgang Shingye-sa, Pyeongyang (Jung Juyoung) Gymnasium, Wonsan salmon farm, Sinuiju cosmetic production facilities and Trans Korea rail&vehicle road. He has an experience of numbers of consulting works on inter-Korean economic cooperation as well.
In 2004, he started his new career at Gaesung Industrial District Foundation. He worked as a member of management team, mainly in charge of development planning and issuing building permit. As an early member of Gaesung Industrial District development, his work covered range of buildings and infrastructures from education center (2006), vertical factories (2009) and main office(2011) to fire station(2012) and dormitory. He also conducted construction planning of the 2nd stage masterplan of the Gaesung Industrial District development. His devotion on development of Gaesung district led him receiving his Korean Industrial Service Medal in 2007.
Recently, as an experienced North Korea development expert and licensed architect, he contributed his writings to the weekly Kyunghyang and the KIRA monthly (Korean Institute of Registered Architect). The contributed articles covered his experience on North Korea development projects. For weekly Kyunghyang, his articles are mainly about inter-Korean architectural co-projects such as KEDO, Mt. Geumgang proj., and several cooperative projects regarding religion and medical services. For KIRA monthly, he is writing mostly about current status of North Korea’s architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry.
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CHOI Eunju
Research Fellow, Department of Unification Strategy Studies, The Sejong Institute
Republic of KoreaCloseParallel Session 2
CHOI Eunju
Research Fellow, Department of Unification Strategy Studies, The Sejong Institute
Republic of KoreaDr. Choi is a research fellow at the Sejong Institute.
In 2018, she was granted a Ph.D. in Economics from Korea University, majoring in Political Economy.
Her main research interests are the changes and continuation of North Korean economic policies and systems, and inter-Korean economic cooperation, and Northeast Asian economic cooperation.
She recently co-authored [Demystifying The North Korean Economy(2019)], [Kim Jong-un's Strategy and North Korea (2021)], [The Economic Policies of the Kim (2021)]. -
CHOI Bok-su
Vice Governor for Administrative Affairs, Gangwon Province
Republic of KoreaCloseOpening Ceremony
CHOI Bok-su
Vice Governor for Administrative Affairs, Gangwon Province
Republic of KoreaCHOI Bok-su is the Vice Governor for Administrative Affairs at Gangwon Province of the Republic of Korea.
In 2008, CHOI served as Director for Disaster Prevention Countermeasures Division at the National Emergency Management Agency and in 2009, became Director for Disaster and Safety Policy Division of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety. From 2012 to 2013, he served as Deputy Minister for Planning and Coordination Office of Sejong City.
After serving as Vice Mayor of Cheongju City (2013-2014), he joined the Ministry of the Interior and Safety as Director General for Policy Planning in the Planning and Coordination Office (2014-2015) and then worked at the National Security Office as Senior Executive Officer (2017-2018).
CHOI worked at the Ministry of the Interior and Safety of the Republic of Korea as Director General for Disaster Management (2018-2019), Deputy Minister for Disaster Management Cooperation (2020-2021) and Deputy Minister for Disaster Management (2021).
He holds a B.A in Public Administration from Hanyang University and a M.A. in Public Administration from Chungbuk National University.
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Rüdiger FRANK
Professor and Head, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna
AustriaClosePlenary Session
Rüdiger FRANK
Professor and Head, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna
AustriaDr. Rudiger FRANK is Professor of East Asian Economy and Society at the University of Vienna, where he heads the Department of East Asian Studies. He was born and raised in socialist East Germany and lived for five years in the Soviet Union. He experienced German Unification as a 21-year-old, and spent one semester as a language student at Kim-Il-Sung University in Pyongyang in 1991/1992. He holds university degrees in Korean Studies, International Relations, and Economics. On the basis of these skills and experiences, he has written extensively on various topics related to North Korea, including its economic history during the 1950s, the connections between ideology and economic reform after the 1990s famine, tourism and trade, and the political economy of unification. He has been working in various Korea-related councils of the World Economic Forum between 2011 and 2021, and was named one of the 50 most influential German economists by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 2012.
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GEUM Chang Ho
Senior Research Fellow, Local Autonomy and Decentralization System, Korea Research Institute for Local Administration
Republic of KoreaCloseParallel Session 3
GEUM Chang Ho
Senior Research Fellow, Local Autonomy and Decentralization System, Korea Research Institute for Local Administration
Republic of KoreaDr. Geum is a senior research fellow at the Korea Research Institute for Local Administration and has been serving since 1992.
He majored in Policy Studies at Konkuk University Graduate School and received his Ph.D. in Public Administration.
The major research field is organization diagnosis and administration of upper-level local government, and he is currently conducting research on autonomy and decentralization, local councils, and special system at the Local Autonomy and Decentralization System Office. Not only that, he also played many roles in government ministries and educational institutions. First, he served as an advisor to the advisory committees belonging to the president of each government.
In the Lee Myung-bak government, as a working member of the Presidential Committee for Decentralization(2008-2010), he reviewed the special local administrative agency reorganization plan, and reviewed inter-regional social conflict management plans at the Presidential Committee for Social Cohesion(2010-2012). In the Park Geun-hye government, he deliberated on the transfer of functions at the Presidential Committee on Local Autonomy Development, and in the Moon Jae-in government, he reviewed countermeasures against the low fertility at the Presidential Committee on Ageing Society and Population Policy.
In addition, he taught theory and practice as an affiliated professor at the Local Government Officials Development Institute in 2010 and as a commissioned professor at the Dasan Education Center in 2011. In 2017, he was appointed vice president of the Korean Association for Local Government Studies.
He is the author of Issues of Local Autonomy(2014) and Development Tasks and Future of Local Autonomy in Korea(2016).
As of 2021, he is also serving as a regional subcommittee member of the Presidential Committee on Ageing Society and Population Policy, and administrative innovation advisory member of the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, and a member of the Mega City Government-wide Support Group. -
Thomas GOMART
Director, French Institute of International Relations
FranceClosePlenary Session
Thomas GOMART
Director, French Institute of International Relations
FranceDr. Thomas Gomart (PhD in History at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and EMBA at HEC) is Director of Ifri. He previously was its Vice President for Strategic Development (2010-2015) and the Director of its Russia/NIS Centre (2004-2013). Before joining the think tank industry, Gomart was a scholar (Assistant Professor at La Sorbonne, 1996- 1999), a cadet officer in the Army (2000), and a policy entrepreneur (2001-2004). Joining Ifri in 2004, he set up the Russia/NIS centre. His academic and professional background has been closely related to post-Soviet space, but also to wider international issues (security, energy, and digital governance). As Lavoisier Fellow at the State Institute for International Relations (University-MGIMO – Moscow), Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies (European Union – Paris) and Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of War Studies (King’s College – London), Gomart has acquired a diversified international experience. As Researcher, he is currently working on Russia, digital governance, country risk, and think tanks. He recently published Notre intérêt national. Quelle politique étrangère pour la France? (ed., with Thierry de Montbrial), Editions Odile Jacob, 2017; L’affolement du monde - 10 enjeux géopolitiques, Editions Tallandier, 2019 (Prix Louis Marin and Prix du Livre de Géopolitique); “What Is A Think Tank? A French Perspective”, Etudes de l'Ifri, November 2019; « Le COVID-19 et la fin de l'innocence technologique », Politique étrangère, vol. 85, n° 2, Summer 2020 as well as Guerres Invisibles. Nos prochains défis géopolitiques, Editions Tallandier, 2021. Thomas Gomart has been a member of the Strategic Review Committee on the Strategic Review of Defence and National Security 2017 (French Ministry of Armed Forces). He is a member of the scientific committee of the Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence (IHEDN). He is also a member of the editorial board of the French journals Politique étrangère, Etudes, and Revue des deux mondes.
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HONG Hyunik
Chancellor, Korea National Diplomatic Academy
Republic of KoreaCloseParallel Session 1
HONG Hyunik
Chancellor, Korea National Diplomatic Academy
Republic of KoreaDr. Hyunik HONG is Chancellor of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy. He received a Ph.D. in International Politics at the University of Paris I (Pantheon Sorbonne), after graduating from Seoul National University with a BA and MA in international relations.
He is a member of Policy Advisory Committee to Presidential Office of National Security, Policy Advisory Committee to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Commission of Inter-Korean Development to Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business and Commission of Inter-Korean Development to KB Financial Group. He was a member of the Presidential Commission on Policy Planning, a vice-president of the Korean Political Science Association, a policy adviser in the Secretariat of the National Security Council (Presidential Office), a vice minister level member of the National Commission of Inter-Korean Development presided by the Minister of Unification, a policy Adviser of the National Intelligence Service, an executive secretary of Standing Committee on International Affairs of the presidential National Unification Advisory Council, director and Senior Research Fellow of Department of Security Strategy Studies in Sejong Institute, and visiting research fellow to Duke University, U.S.A.
He wrote A Study on North Korea’s international behavior : nuclear provocation or Negotiation(2018), Great Korea's Grand Design for the 21st Century: A rational and Pragmatic Strategy for Solving the North Korea Problem, Building Peace and Achieving Reunification(2012), and North Korea Policy and Policy options to promote international cooperation for the purpose of achieving peaceful reunification : Lessons of Germany and Yemen(2015), Foreign security policy of Ukraine and Poland: lessons for the reunification of Korea(2015), USA’s normalization of diplomatic relations with hostile countries : Cases of China, Vietnam, Libya, Myanmar and lessons on the normalization of diplomatic relations between USA and North Korea(2014). He also wrote several scholarly articles in Korean.
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JUNG YOOSUK
Senior Research Fellow, Economic Research Institute, Industrial Bank of Korea
Republic of KoreaCloseParallel Session 2
JUNG YOOSUK
Senior Research Fellow, Economic Research Institute, Industrial Bank of Korea
Republic of KoreaYoosuk Jung, Research Fellow, IBK Industrial Bank of Korea Economic Research Institute
Dr. Jung started his carrier at Korea Rural Economic Institute in 2010. He also served as a public officer at The Peaceful Unification Advisory Council in 2012. In 2014, Dr. Jung was appointed as a research professor of the Center for North Korean Studies, Korea University. He moved to Goyang Municipal Research Institute as an inter-Korean exchange and cooperation officer in 2017. After serving a research fellow position at the Northeast Asian Center of the Export-Import Bank of Korea from 2018, Currently, he is a research fellow at the North Korean Economic Team at the Economic Research Institute of IBK Industrial Bank of Korea. In addition, now he also serves as a policy advisor at Inter-Korean Relations Cooperation Committee-Seoul City, and The Peaceful Unification Advisory Council, Ministry of Unification, Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation and Unification Education Committee. He majored in North Korean economy and inter-Korean economic cooperation—Dr. Jung obtained Ph.D. from Korea University. -
JUNG Hae-Gu
Chairperson, National Research Council for Economics, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Republic of KoreaCloseOpening Ceremony
JUNG Hae-Gu
Chairperson, National Research Council for Economics, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Republic of KoreaJung Hae-Gu is the 8th Chairperson of the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences (NRC). As the Chairperson, he represents and governs the 26 government think tanks of Korea, which provide expertise and scientific research for policy makers.
Chairman JUNG’s expertise is in Political Science and International Relations in which he received a Ph. D. from Korea University. He also had an extensive career as Professor of Politics at Sungkonghoe University where until his recent retirement, taught for 20 years.
He provided his services to the government as the Chief of Staff for Policy from 2017 to 2019 at the Office of the President. He is noted for his leadership as the Chairman of the Presidential Commission on Policy Planning. He is also noted for his leadership as the Chairman of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) Reform and Development Committee and chairman of Special Advisory Committee on Constitutional Reform.
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KANG Min-Jo
Research Fellow, Korean Peninsula & East Asia Research Center, Korea Reseach Institute for Human Settlements
Republic of KoreaCloseParallel Session 3
KANG Min-Jo
Research Fellow, Korean Peninsula & East Asia Research Center, Korea Reseach Institute for Human Settlements
Republic of KoreaKang Min-jo has been conducting research on North Korea and land Use for border areas between South and North Korea using remote sensing and GIS techniques since 2014 at the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements. She has been a member of the Working Group and Planning Team of the Korean Peninsula Peace and Prosperity Research Group since 2018. In addition, in she worked as a remote sensing consultant at World Bank in the United States in 2014.
Kang Min-jo earned a doctorate in geography from Florida State University in 2014, a master's degree in geography from Arizona State University in 2009, a master's degree in regional science from KonKuk University in 2003, and a bachelor's degree in geography from Konkuk University in 2001. -
KANG In Tae
Former Manager of Legislative Support Team, Department of Policy and Legislation, Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Council
Republic of KoreaCloseParallel Session 3
KANG In Tae
Former Manager of Legislative Support Team, Department of Policy and Legislation, Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Council
Republic of KoreaKang, In Tae, Ph.D. served as a manager of the legislative Support Team of Jeju Self-Governing Provincial Council from 2010-2021.
As a team manager, he played a leading role to support legislation and policy making to develop Jeju Special Self-Governing Province. He advised to revise the Act of Special Act on the Establishment of Jeju Special Self-governing Province and the Development of Free International City. He is a pioneer and leading expert in the field of legislative evaluation of local government’s ordinances. He performed to evaluate ordinances of local government for the first time in Korea in 2015.
He served as expert advisor at the Anti-Corruption and Civil Right Commission from 2012 - 2014 in the field of grievance petition, institutional improvement, and management of public conflicts. He worked for Hanmi Law firm and LSK Law Office from 2002 - 2008. He obtained Doctoral Degree at law from Sogang University in 2010 and received a Master’s Degree at Law from Sogang University in 2001. -
Steve KILLELEA
Founder & Executive Chairman, Institute for Economics and Peace
AustraliaClosePlenary Session
Steve KILLELEA
Founder & Executive Chairman, Institute for Economics and Peace
AustraliaSteve Killelea AM is a global philanthropist focused on peace and sustainable development, with a long, successful career in high technology and international business development.
Over the last two decades, Steve has applied his business skills to his many global philanthropic activities, established an internationally renowned global think tank, the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) and a private family charity, The Charitable Foundation, which now has over three million direct beneficiaries.
More than 20 years ago, he established The Charitable Foundation, one of the largest private overseas aid organisations based in Australia providing life-changing programs to some of the poorest communities in the world including, emergency and famine relief, environment rehabilitation, and rehabilitating former child soldiers.
Steve’s deep commitment to peace has earned him two Nobel Peace Prize nominations. He is the founder of the independent think tank IEP and the Global Peace Index, the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness. IEP is a highly impactful non-profit and non-partisan research institute known for innovative analysis on the relationship between business, peace and economic development, used by many international organisations including the United Nations and the World Bank. In 2013, a coalition of Australian Foundations recognised his funding of IEP as one of the 50 most impactful philanthropic gifts in Australia’s history. In the same year, the Action on Armed Violence group, recognised Steve as one of the 100 most influential people in the world on reducing armed violence. Steve serves on the President’s Circle for Club de Madrid, the largest forum of former world leaders working to strengthen democracy. He is an Honorary President of Religion for Peace, the world’s largest organisation working on inter-religious challenges.
As an entrepreneur in the high technology industry, Steve founded and built one of Australia’s leading publicly listed IT companies. Integrated Research has a 30-year heritage providing its PROGNOSIS performance monitoring software for business-critical computing and IP telephony environments. Through Steve’s direction as CEO and then chairperson, IR has an impressive world class customer base and its software is used by many of the world’s top organisations in more than 50 countries. Steve served as a board member of the Australian Information Industry Association for eight years and sat on a number of private company and government boards including the Australian Chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBAB) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). In 2001, Steve founded Smarter Capital, a venture capital company that specialises in investing in unique technologies with global applicability. -
KIM Heungchong
President, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP)
Republic of KoreaCloseOpening Ceremony
KIM Heungchong
President, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP)
Republic of KoreaDr. KIM Heungchong had served the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) for nineteen years before he has led the institute as President since June, 2020. Chairing the KOPEC (Korea National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation), President Kim is currently leading both the EUSA-Korea (European Studies Association of Korea) and the APEC Studies Association of Korea. He is one of the members of KRD (Korea Russia Dialogue).
He has been deeply involved in policy-making process of the Korean government in the fields of economic, trade and diplomatic policies. Dr. Kim was among the Advisory Staff to the Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Finance & Economy of Korea, and had been a key advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade on the Korea-EU FTA during the negotiation process. He also advised the Ministry of Strategy and Finance on G20, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on APEC and Korea’s diplomatic strategy, and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on ASEM and Brexit. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the UC Berkeley and held visiting positions at Ifri (Paris), VUB (Brussels), Korea University (Seoul) and Marmara University (Istanbul). He served both Sogang University and Ewha Womans University as Adjunct Professors.
Dr. Kim’s expertise includes trade policy, European studies, and regional integration. He has published more than seventy papers and books, and has actively contributed to various newspapers and TV programs in Korea and abroad including Valdai Discussion Club. Before joining KIEP, Dr. Kim was an Honorary Member of the High Table in Christ Church, Oxford. Dr. Kim read economics at Seoul National University and the University of Oxford. -
KIM Donggil
Director, The Center for Korean Peninsula Studies / Professor, The History Department, Peking University
ChinaCloseParallel Session 1
KIM Donggil
Director, The Center for Korean Peninsula Studies / Professor, The History Department, Peking University
ChinaKim Donggil is a professor at department of history, Peking University, and co-author of history of Sino-Soviet Relations (1931-1945) (Beijing: CCP history publishing house, 2009). His research covers PRC diplomatic history, Sino-Soviet relations, and Sino-North Korea relations. He has published 30 articles in Diplomatic History, Cold War History, The Chinese Historical Review, The International History Review, Seoul Journal of Korean Studies, etc. He is currently work on Sino-Korea Cold War studies and the director of Center for Korean Peninsula Studies, Peking University.
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KIM Sang Ki
Research Fellow, Peace Research Division, Korea Institute for National Unification
Republic of KoreaCloseParallel Session 2
KIM Sang Ki
Research Fellow, Peace Research Division, Korea Institute for National Unification
Republic of KoreaSang Ki Kim is a research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Iowa in 2012, and worked at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies of Kyungnam University as a research fellow. He served as a policy advisor to the Unification Minister from May 2019 to June 2020. His main interests are in inter-Korean relations, DPRK-US relations, a peace regime on the Korean peninsula, US foreign policy. There are a number of publications, such as A Proposal and Suggestions for Peace Agreement of the Korean Peninsula (co-authored, 2019) (in Korean), Building a Peace Regime on the Korean Peninsula and ROK-US relations (co-authored, 2018) (in Korean).
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KIM Juwon
Professor, Department of Social Economy, Sangji University
Republic of KoreaCloseParallel Session 3
KIM Juwon
Professor, Department of Social Economy, Sangji University
Republic of KoreaJoo-Won Kim worked as a researcher at the Gangwon Research Institute from 1996 to 2019. As a researcher, he has been conducting research on Gangwon-do's local autonomy system, strengthening competitiveness in rural agriculture, and administrative innovation. Among them, Gangwon-do Special Self-Governing Province for Peace is proposed and efforts are being made to develop it into a model for peaceful unification in Gangwon-do, which is currently divided into North and South Gangwon-do. He has been awarded the National Medal and the Presidential Citation for his achievements in administrative innovation. And now, he is working as a professor at the Department of Social Economy at Sangji University, and is working hard for the development of rural agriculture and the implementation of Gangwon Peace Special Self-Governing Province.
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KIM Boo-kyum
Prime Minister, Republic of Korea
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KIM Boo-kyum
Prime Minister, Republic of Korea
KIM Boo-kyum is the 47th Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea.
KIM previously served as the Minister of the Interior and Safety (2017-2019) and served as a member of the National Assembly for four terms. He also served as a Member of Strategy & Finance Committee and Special Committee on Budget and Accounts; Supreme Council of Democratic United Party; Culture, Sports, Team, Broadcasting and Communications Committee; Education, Science & Technology Committee; Government Administration & Home Affairs Committee; Unification, Foreign Affairs & Trade Committee; Special Committee on Budget & Accounts; and National Policy Committee.
KIM Boo-kyum earned his B.A. in Political Sciences from Seoul National University and M.P.A. in Public Administration from Yonsei University. -
KOH Yu-hwan
President, Korea Institute for National Unification
Republic of KoreaCloseParallel Session 1
KOH Yu-hwan
President, Korea Institute for National Unification
Republic of KoreaDr. Yu-hwan KOH received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Dongguk University. He is an expert in areas of unification, North Korea, and inter-Korean relations.
Dr. KOH was a professor in the Department of North Korean Studies at Dongguk University (1994-2020), Director of Institute for North Korean Studies at Dongguk University (2009-2020), a visiting scholar of Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University (2010-2011), President of Korean Association of North Korean Studies (2012), Chair of the Peace and Prosperity Sub-committee of Presidential Commission on Policy Planning (2017-2019)/member (-2020), Member of the experts advisory group for the inter-Korean summit (2018), Chair of Policy Advisory Committee, Office of National Security, Office of the President (2017-2020) and a chair of the Planning and Coordination Committee at National Unification Advisory Council (2017-2021).
He has been serving as the Chair of the Korean Peninsula Sub-committee at Policy Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2018.
Dr. KOH's major publications include “Peace on the Road to Unification (2019)” (in Korean), “70 Years of Division Viewed through the Lens of Inter-Korean Military Conflicts (2018)” (in Korean), “New Paradigm of North Korean Studies: perspective, methodology, method (2015)” (in Korean), “The Social Changes and Hybridity in North Korea1: Ambiguous Boundaries of the 'Juche Society' (2021)” (in Korean), “Troubled Transition: North Korea’s Politics, Economy, and External Relations (2013)” (in English). -
Mohan KUMAR
Chairman, Research and Information System for Developing Countries
IndiaClosePlenary Session
Mohan KUMAR
Chairman, Research and Information System for Developing Countries
IndiaAmbassador Dr. Mohan Kumar is the Chairman of Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) since June 2018.
Ambassador Kumar has had an outstanding career in the Indian Foreign Service lasting 36 years which culminated in his being India's Ambassador to France based in Paris. Under his watch, the Indo-French strategic partnership was strengthened and consolidated further in spheres such as defense, space, nuclear & solar energy, smart cities and investment. Earlier, Mohan Kumar was India's Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain where he witnessed and dealt with a strategically complex region characterized by events such as the "Arab Spring".
Ambassador Kumar has enormous expertise in the area of international trade- he was India's lead negotiator first at the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) and then at the WTO (World Trade Organization) in crucial areas such as Intellectual Property Rights, Services, Dispute Settlement, Rules and Technical Barriers to Trade. He was a leading member of India's delegation at the WTO Ministerial Conferences held in Marrakesh (1994), Seattle (1999) and Doha (2001).
Ambassador Kumar also has strategic understanding of India's ties with some of her key neighbours such as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Maldives. He oversaw India's ties with these countries as Joint Secretary and Head of the Division at the Ministry of External Affairs.
Ambassador Kumar's specialization thus includes: diplomatic practice & foreign policy, strategic partnerships with India's neighbours, multilateral negotiations especially trade negotiations, climate change and globalization.
Ambassador Kumar holds a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi and a Doctorate (Ph.D) from Sciences Po University, Paris.
Ambassador Kumar is Professor of Diplomatic Practice at the Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India since August 2017. He is also Dean at the University, dealing with International Affairs and Global Initiatives.
Ambassador Kumar is author of a book entitled “Negotiation Dynamics of the WTO: An Insider’s Account”, published by Palgrave Macmillan (2018).
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Jean H. LEE
Senior Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
U.S.A.CloseParallel Session 1
Jean H. LEE
Senior Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
U.S.A.Jean H. LEE is a journalist and analyst who opened the first and only U.S. news bureau in Pyongyang, North Korea. She currently serves as co-host of The Lazarus Heist podcast for the BBC World Service and as a senior fellow with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
As a journalist, Lee led the Associated Press news agency’s coverage of the Korean Peninsula as bureau chief from 2008 to 2013. In 2011, she became the first American reporter granted extensive access on the ground in North Korea, and in January 2012, she opened AP’s Pyongyang bureau. Lee has made dozens of extended reporting trips to North Korea, visiting farms, factories, schools, military academies and homes in the course of her exclusive coverage across the country.
Lee holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Columbia University. She worked as a reporter for the Korea Herald in Seoul, South Korea, before being posted with AP to Baltimore; Fresno, Calif.; San Francisco; New York; London; Seoul, South Korea, and Pyongyang, North Korea. Reporting assignments took her across Europe, North America and Asia.
After leaving AP, Lee joined the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, as a fellow, then as director of the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy. She is currently a senior fellow with the Wilson Center.
Lee has served as a CNN contributor, and provides analysis and commentary to a wide range of global media outlets. She appears in the National Geographic series “Inside North Korea” as well PBS’ “Dictator’s Playbook” and Netflix’s “How to Become a Tyrant.” -
LEE Youngsung
Professor, Department of Environmental Planning, Seoul National University
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LEE Youngsung
Professor, Department of Environmental Planning, Seoul National University
Republic of KoreaYoungsung Lee got his Ph.D. at Cornell University in the field of City and Regional Planning in 2001. After working at Chungang University from 2003 to 2006, he moved to Seoul National University. As a professor at Seoul National University, his interests cover ‘Urban and Regional Economics’, ‘Infrastructure Planning’, ‘Smart City Planning’, and ’Unification of Koreas and City Planning’. Recently, his interests have been focused on disruptive changes of urban economic structure due to technology revolution. He was Senior Editor of ‘International Journal of Urban Science(SSCI)’ from 2017-2019. He has served for several presidential committee in the fields of sustainability and population policies. He has been trying to apply his research achievements to the future common prosperity of the two Koreas.
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LEE In-young
Minister, Ministry of Unification
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LEE In-young
Minister, Ministry of Unification
Republic of KoreaLEE In-young currently serves as Minister of Unification of the Republic of Korea.
In 1987, LEE was the Chairperson of the 20th Student Council of Korea University as well as the inaugural Chairperson of the National Council of Student Representatives, which was South Korea's biggest college students' organization. He started his political career in 1999 at the Millennium Democratic Party (MDP).
LEE was elected to the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea in 2004, 2012, 2016 and 2020, and was elected Member of the Supreme Council of the Democratic Party in 2010 and 2012. He served as the Chairperson of the Special Committee on Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation of the National Assembly in 2018 and the 20th Floor Leader of the Democratic Party in 2019.
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LEE Chanwoo
Associate Professor, Contemporary Business Department, Teikyo University
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LEE Chanwoo
Associate Professor, Contemporary Business Department, Teikyo University
JapanChanwoo Lee, is an Associate Professor at Teikyo University in Tokyo. In 1998 and 1999 before going to Japan, he was a member of the Central Committee of the National Unification Advisory Council of south Korea, which is a constitutional institution to advise the President on the formulation of peaceful unification policy. After coming to Japan, he has experienced careers at ERINA as a visiting researcher in Niigata. He is also working as a Specially Appointed Fellow at Japan Center for Economic Research in Tokyo. He is an author of articles and research papers on Korea Peninsula issue including economic cooperation among northeast Asian region, for example, Northeast Asia Policies of South and North Korea, Changing Economic Map in the Northeast Asia,( 2017), and book of Cooperation with North Korea`s Economy(2019).
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LEE Hee-Ok
Professor, Political Science and Diplomacy, Sungkyunkwan University
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LEE Hee-Ok
Professor, Political Science and Diplomacy, Sungkyunkwan University
Republic of KoreaLee Hee-Ok currently serves as a Professor of Political Science and Diplomacy and Director of the Sungkyun Institute of China Studies at Sungkyunkwan University. In academia, he served as President of the Korean Association of Contemporary China Studies, and is vice president of the Korean Political Science Association. He also serves as an advisor to the inter-Korean summit at Blue House, a member of the Inter-Korean Relations Development Committee, a policy advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Unification, Seoul Metropolitan Government, and a standing member of the The National Unification Advisory Council. He is a board member of the Sejong Institute and the Northeast Asian History Foundation. In China, he is a chair and professor at Jilin University, Tongji University, Tianjin University of Foreign Studies, and Capital Normal University. He has served as a special inviting professor at Japan's Nagoya University, a visiting scholar at Washington University and Ocean University of China. He received a Ph.D from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, and studied and lectured at University of Hong Kong, Peking University before and after this period. He has published several books such as
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NA Yongwoo
Research Fellow, Humanitarianism and Cooperation Research Division, Korea Institute for National Unification
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NA Yongwoo
Research Fellow, Humanitarianism and Cooperation Research Division, Korea Institute for National Unification
Republic of KoreaYongwoo Na is Research Fellow of Humanitarianism and Cooperation Research Division at the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU). Dr. Na was a senior researcher at the Center for Good Democracy of Sungkyunkwan University, and a visiting researcher at Center for Peace and Security Studies of Georgetown University. Dr. Na majors in political science, especially in international relations and energy politics. Recently he has been focusing on the exchange and cooperation between South Korea and North Korea. His recent writings include Conditions and Tasks for Inter-Korean Health and Medical Cooperation in the COVID-19 era (Korean, 2021), New Strategies and Initiatives for the New Southern Policy and New Northern Policy (Korean, 2020), New Strategies and Tasks for the Decentralized Policy towards North Korea (Korean, 2019), Changes of North-South Korean Relationships and Foreign Policy of Northeast Asian Region (Co-edited, Korean, 2019), Peace and International Politics of the Korean Peninsula (Co-edited, Korean, 2018), North-South Korea’s Energy Cooperation for sustainable Peace and Prosperity on Korean Peninsula (Korean, 2019), New ‘Local Governance’ for Peace and Prosperity of Korean Peninsula: Focusing on the Roles of Local Governments of Exchange and Cooperation between South and North Korea (Co-authorship, 2018), The External Opening Policy in Kim Jong-un’s Era and Inter-Korean Cooperation: A Search for New Model of Economic Cooperation through North Korea’s Economic Development Zones Strategy (Co-authorship, 2017), The Acceleration of North Korea’s Nuclear Capability and the Searching for South Korea’s New Policy toward North Korea (Co-authorship, 2017), The Hyper-connected Hybrid Era and Cybersecurity: A Securitiztion of Cyber Space and Proposals for Cybersecurity in Korea (Korean, 2017).
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SONG Young Hoon
Professor, Department of Political Science, Kangwon National University
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SONG Young Hoon
Professor, Department of Political Science, Kangwon National University
Republic of KoreaYoung Hoon Song is Dean of the Office of Planning and Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science at Kangwon National University. He was a director of the Kangwon Institute for Unification Studies during 2019-2020. Before joining the university, he had worked for the Korea Institute for National Unification (2014-2015) and the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University (2011-2014). He received his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 2011. His research interests lie in international relations theory, conflict and forced migration, international human rights and humanitarianism, and inter-Korean relations.
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Kathleen STEPHENS
Board Chair, The Korea Society / President & CEO, Korea Economic Institute of America
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Kathleen STEPHENS
Board Chair, The Korea Society / President & CEO, Korea Economic Institute of America
U.S.A.Ambassador Kathleen Stephens assumed leadership of KEI as President and CEO in September 2018. Ambassador Stephens was a career diplomat in the United States Foreign Service, 1978-2015. She was U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea 2008-2011, the first woman and first Korean-speaker to serve in that position. Other overseas assignments included postings to China, former Yugoslavia, Portugal, Northern Ireland, where she was U.S. Consul General in Belfast during the negotiations culminating in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, and India, where she was U.S. Charge d’Affaires.
Ambassador Stephens served in a number of policy positions in Washington at the Department of State and the White House. These included acting Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, and National Security Council Director for European Affairs at the Clinton White House.
Korea has been a leit motif of Ambassador Stephens’ life and career since she served in rural Korea as a Peace Corps volunteer and trainer, 1975-1977. She was in Korea 1983-1989, first as a political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul reporting on Korea’s domestic political and human rights scene, and later leading the U.S. Consulate in Busan.
Stephens was William J. Perry Fellow for Korea at Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center. She has also been Endowed Chair Professor for Language and Diplomacy at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, and Senior State Department Fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. She is a Mansfield Foundation Distinguished Fellow, Pacific Century Institute Board Chairman, Vice-chair of the Board of Trustees of The Asia Foundation, and The Korea Society Board Chair. She is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Asle TOJE
Director, International Forum for Peace and Understanding, U.K. / Member, Norwegian Nobel Committee, Norway
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Asle TOJE
Director, International Forum for Peace and Understanding, U.K. / Member, Norwegian Nobel Committee, Norway
Dr. Asle Toje (b. 1974) is a Director at the International Forum for Understanding and the Deputy Leader of the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee which selects laureates for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is the former Research Director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo. After completing his PhD in Cambridge (2006) Toje has lectured and taught at universities in Europe and beyond. Among his scholarly works are The European Union as a Small Power (London, Macmillan, 2010) and Will China's rise be peaceful? The rise of a great power in theory, history, politics, and the future (Oxford University Press, 2018) and The Causes of Peace: What we know now (Oslo, 2019). Toje is a syndicated columnist and a frequently used pundit in the international media.
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YOON Young-Geun
Associate Research Fellow, Disasters, Safety, and Social Integration Research, Korea Institute of Public Administration
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YOON Young-Geun
Associate Research Fellow, Disasters, Safety, and Social Integration Research, Korea Institute of Public Administration
Republic of KoreaDr. Young Geun YOON is Associate Research Fellow in the Division of Social Cohesion Research at the Korea Institute of Public Administration (KIPA). His fields of interest include local autonomy, state-society relations, and organizational structure.
Before joining KIPA in February 2018, Dr. YOON worked at the Korea Regional Public Administration Institute since 2013. From 2011 to 2013, he served as Senior Researcher in the BK21 project group at Seoul National University, and lectured at universities including Seoul National University and Hanyang University. He obtained his PhD in Public Administration from Seoul National University in 2011.
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Alexander ZHEBIN
Director, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies
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Alexander ZHEBIN
Director, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies
RussiaDr. Alexander Zhebin is a Russian political scientist and specialist on Korean affairs. Director of the Center for Korean Studies at Institue of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) in Mosocw since 2004. He worked for 12 years in North Korea as a journalist and a diplomat.
He graduated form the Moscow State Institue of International Releations (MGIMO) of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1975 and began his career in TASS news agency. In 1978-1979 - TASS correspondent in Pyongyang, in 1983-1990 - TASS Bureau Chief in Pyongyang. In 1998-2001 - first secretary, counsellor at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the DPRK.
He joined Institue of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) in Moscow in 1992 and received his Ph.D. in political science in 1998 from the IFES. In 1993-1994 ~ visiting research fellow at the Asiatic Research Center at Korea Unversity in Seoul. In 1997 - visiting research fellow at Korea Institute of National Unification (KINU) in Seoul.
Dr. A.Zhebin's major fields of research are political developments in the DPRK, Russia-Korea relations, security situation in Northeast Asia and on the Korean peninsula, nuclear problem on the Korean peninsula. He authored three bookrs, chapters in several collective monographs and numerous articles in academic journals and newspapers in the USA, Europe, China, Republic of Korea and Russia. He frequently Science Association (RPSA), International Political Science Association (IPSA). Mosocw Journalist Association, Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE).