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Bios of Korean Participants
Myung-Bok Bae, the Editorial Writer for International Affairs and Diplomatic Correspondent for Joongang Daily.
Myung-Bok Bae is currently the Editorial Writer for International Affairs and Diplomatic Correspondent for JoongAng Daily. He has also worked in the International Affairs bureau as Foreign News Editor, Senior Staff Writer, and News Desk and been a Foreign Correspondent posted in Paris. During his tenure at JoongAng Ilbo, Mr. Bae has interviewed the late French President Francois Mitterand, former British Prime Minister John Major, former Chinese Premier Jiang Zemin, Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong, and former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, to name a few luminaries. He has also been a Staff Writer for foreign policy and a Reporter for economic affairs. In recognition of his outstanding work as a journalist and newspaperman, Mr. Bae has been presented with the Annual Award for Contribution to the JoongAng Ilbo (2001, 2008), Gwanhoon Award for International Reporting (2000), and six Awards for Excellent Writing & Scoops. Mr. Bae received his Masters from the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in 2004 and a Bachelor of Arts and Humanities from Seoul National University in the field of French Language and Literature in 1983.
Ambassador CHO Hyun currently serves as Ambassador for Energy and Resources in the Korean Government. In this capacity, he deals with Korea’s energy related diplomacy. Before he assumed this post in April 2008, he was the Deputy Permanent Representative of the Korean Mission to the United Nations, working on matters of the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Since he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1979, he has worked on a variety of issues in international relations. Mr. Cho first became interested in development issues during assignments in the Central African Republic in 1988 and in Senegal in 1989. In his previous appointment as Director-General of the International Economic Affairs Bureau in 2004 to 2006, Mr. Cho sought to establish a comprehensive framework for Korea’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) policies. Trade has been another major area of his focus. Mr. Cho participated in the Uruguay Round negotiations in the early 1990s and the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations in 2002-2003. During his mission in Washington, D.C., in 1996-1999, he took part in many bilateral trade negotiations. Seconded to the Secretariat of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 1999-2002, Mr. Cho worked on trade and development issues. Upon returning to Seoul in 2002, Mr. Cho chaired the Joint Experts Group meetings for the Korea-Japan Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and the Korea-Mexico FTA. He also coordinated Korea’s international trade policies as Senior Administrator in the Presidential Office from 2003-2004. Mr. Cho received a B.A. in Political Science from Yonsei University, Seoul, in 1980. In 1994, he received an M.A. in International Affairs, with a focus on economic policy planning, from Columbia University, New York, and an M.A. in Political Science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po) in 2000. He recently taught International Relations for three semesters as an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of International Affairs of Ewha Women’s University in Seoul.
Currently at the Department of Political Science, Korea University, Byung-Kook Kim teaches party politics, methodology, and comparative political theory. He graduated from Harvard University, with a BA in economics and Phi Beta Kappa (1982) and with a Ph.D in political science (1988). He served on the Editorial Board of Hankuk Daily (1994-1995) and the Presidential Commission on Policy Planning (1994-1998), and taught at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2003) as the Ralph I. Straus Visiting Professor. He authored and edited The Dynamics of National Division and Revolution: The Political Economy of Korea and Mexico (1994); State, Region, and International System: Change and Continuity (1995); Korean Politics (1998); Consolidating Democracy in South Korea (2000); Between Compliance and Conflict: East Asia, Latin America, and the “New” Pax Americana (2005); and Power and Security in Northeast Asia: Shifting Strategies (2007). Kim directed the East Asia Institute, an independent think tank based in Seoul (2002-2008), before serving as the Senior Secretary for Foreign Affairs and National Security in the Lee Myung-bak presidency in 2008. Currently, he is a member of the Executive Committee, International Political Science Association (2006-2009).
Jin Hyun Kim is currently the Chairman of The World Peace Forum. And the Senior Research Advisor at the Korea International Trade Association and is the Founding Director of the Seoul forum for International Affairs. Currently He is serving the executive chairman, Presidential Commission of Commemoration for 60 Years Anniversary, Republic of Korea. He also works on the advisory council of the Korea Society in New York and has a seat on the Board of Governors of the Pacific Forum of CSIS (Hawaii). Jin Hyun Kim has completed his B.A. in sociology at Seoul National University in 1958 and has received Honorary Ph.D. from Korea University in economics and from Kwang Woon University in Engineering in 1995. He has also completed the Nieman Fellow Course at Harvard University in 1979. Mr. Kim has worked as an Editorial writer, deputy Managing director and News director at the Dong-A Daily, where he stayed for 13 years from 1967 to 1980. He then worked as a vice-president and CEO for the Korea Economics Research Institute, after which he came back to the Dong-A Daily as the editor-in-chief. In 1988, Mr. Kim worked as a commissioner in the Presidential Advisory Commission on Economic reconstruction. In 1990, he became minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology. Three years later, he became vice-chairman of the Korea Committee of the UNICEF and afterward, he also chaired the Korea Economic Daily and Munwha Daily and co-chaired the Presidential Commission for Globalization. In 1995, Jin Hyun Kim became the president of Seoul National University, co-chaired the Korea Federation of Environment Movement, and worked on the advisory council of the Korea Society in New York. He then worked as a fellow in Geneva in the World Economic Forum and in 1997, became the Chairman of the Korea Marine and Fishery Research Institute. In 1999, he worked as a chairman and publisher of the Munhwa Daily, and as the chairman of board of the Korea-Australia Foundation.
As Director of the Policy & Research Department of the Korea Foundation, Kim also holds a post as Managing Director of the East Asia Foundation, a private non-profit organization. Kim received his Ph.D. in Political Economy from Columbia University, with his area specialty being Russia. Before joining the Korea Foundation, he worked at the Division of International Education of Yonsei University. His recent research focuses on comparative political economy of post-socialist economic transformation in countries like Russia, China, North Korea, Belarus and Central Asia. His recent published articles include: “Impassive to Imperial? Russia in Northeast Asia from Yeltsin to Putin,” “Delegating Property Rights: A Property Rights Approach to Economic Reforms in the Soviet Union, Russia, China, and North Korea,” “Recombinant Capitalism: Fragmented State and Associated Economy in Post-Socialism”; co-authored with Chung-in Moon “South Korea’s International Relations”. He was awarded Korea Research Foundation’s 2003 Junior Scholar Research Promotion Grant.
Young Tae Kwon is the Executive Vice President of the Coal Procurement Department, of the Iron Ore Procurement & Raw Material Investment Department, as well as of the Steel Making Raw Materials Procurement Department of POSCO. He graduated from Hankook University of Foreign Studies in 1975 and joined POSCO in that same year. He worked as a manager and group manager of many different departments, including that of the CTS Department, Coal Import Section, and Raw Materials Control Team, and was then appointed director of POSCO Australia Pty.Ltd in 1989. Kwon also became President of POSCO Canada Ltd in 2000. Before being promoted to the post of Executive Vice President, he was the Senior Vice President of the Coal Procurement Department, the Iron Ore Procurement & Raw Material Investment Department, and the STS Raw Material Procurement Department.
Kyung Tae Lee is the current President of the Institute for International Trade (KITA). He has completed his Doctor of Economics at George Washington University and a Masters of Public Administration in Seoul National University. Prior his present position as the President of the KITA, until May 2008, Mr. Lee was the President of the Korea Insitute for Industrial Economic Policy (KIEP). He has also worked as an Ambassador to the Permanent Delegation of Korea to the OECD, and as the Vice President and President of the KIEP. Aside from his professional experience, Kyung Tae Lee has much experience in advisory activities: indeed, in 1989, he was the Economic Advisor to the Minister of Trade and Industry, and in 1999, He worked as a member of the East Asia Vision Group. In 2000, he was appointed member of the Governing Body and the regional representative of East Asia of the Global Development Network and more recently, he has worked for the APEC as the Chair of the Economic Committee. His most recent publications are: “Comparative Characteristics of Korea's Industrial Structure”, Research Report No. 290, KIET, 1993, “A Study of Korea's Development Indicators”, Presidential Commission on Policy Planning, 1996 “Is APEC Moving Towards the Bogor Goal?” ,Working Paper Series 01-03, Coauthored, KIEP, 2001 , “Is the East Asian Development Model Dead?” KIEP, 2001, “Korea's Foreign Trade Strategy in the New Millennium”, Korea's Economic Strategy in the Globalization Era, Coauthored, edited by Oh Yul Kwon , Kyung Tae Lee, Edward Elgar Co., 2003. and “China’s Integration with the World Economy: Repercussions of China’s Accession to the WTO” edited by Kyung Tae Lee, Justin Yifu Lin, Si Joong Kim, KIEP, 2001
Sook Jong Lee received her PhD in Sociology from Harvard University. Her previous positions include Senior Research Fellow at the Sejong Institute, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Professorial Lecturer at the SAIS of John Hopkins University. She’s been participating in the Korea-Japan Forum and speaks at American universities and think tanks. Her research interests are the civil society and democracy of Korea and Japan and these two countries’ political economy and policy opinions. She has published numerous articles and edited several books. Her recent publications are “Allying with the United States: Changing South Korean Attitudes,” “The Demise of ‘Korea Inc.’: Paradigm Shift in Korea's Developmental State,” “Japan’s Changing Security Norms and Perceptions Since the 1990s” and “The Politics of NGOs and Democratic Governance in South Korea and Japan.”
Ungsuh Kenneth Park is the honorary chairman of UI Energy Corp. He graduated the Seoul National University and received his PhD in economics at the University of Pittsburgh. His previous positions include President, CEO of Samsung Petrochemical Co., President of Samsung Economic Research Institute, and Advisor to the Chairman, Samsung Group of Companies. He had an academic career as Economics Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, and Professor of Business Strategy at Sejong University. Suh also served as the Chair of Board of Trustees, Korea-Australia Foundation since 2002, and as Vice Chair of the Business Industry Advisory Council of the OECD, Paris. He published Balancing between Panic and Mania-East Asian Economic Crisis in 1999 and three other books in English, and 11 volumes of research monographs in Korean.
Keuk-Je Sung, currently the dean of the Graduate School of Pan-Pacific International Studies in Kyung Hee University and the director general of the ASEM-DUO Fellowship Secretariat, has completed his BA in Economics at Seoul National University and his Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Decision Science at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. His dissertation title was: “Product Differentiation and Entry Deterrence,” supervised by Morton Kamien and Roger Myerson). He has been part of the Korean Delegationfor Telecommunication Negotiation with the USA from 1987 to 1991, and of the Korean Delegation for Service Negotiation in Uruguay Round in from 1991 to 1993. He has also been appointed Special Advisor to the Minister of Communication and Information and economist to the President’s Office of the Republic of Korea. In 2000, he worked as the Head of the international Trade Law Counsel in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and was appointed Korean Head Delegate for the Services Negotiation in WTO. More recently, he has worked as the President of the Korean Association of Negotiation Studies. He is now the chairman of the Education Forum in Korea, the president of the Institute for Information Age and of the Research Institute for Public Corporation Innovation, and is the vice president of the Korean Association of International Development Cooperation.He also works as the director of the Bogo Economic Research Institute. His most recent publications are Analysis of MFN Exemptions under GATS/WTO, International Trade Law, Ministry of Justice, Republic of Korea, 2002; ASEM Cooperation in the DDA Negotiations, European Studies, 2002; A Study on the Scope of Incidental Services under the GATS/WTO, International Trade Law, Ministry of Justice, Republic of Korea, 2003; DDA/GATS Negotiations and Regulatory Reform in Korea, Jungseok Research Institute of International Logistics and Trade, 2004.
Martin was born in Sydney in 1953 and was educated at St Patrick's, Strathfield. He has a Bachelor of Economics degree (Hons) from Sydney University.
Heather Smith, Deputy Director-General
Dr Heather Smith joined the Office of National Assessments (ONA) as Deputy Director-General in March 2005. ONA reports directly to the Prime Minister and is responsible for advising the Government on international political, strategic and economic developments affecting Australia's national interests. ONA is also responsible for the coordination of Australia’s foreign intelligence activities and maintains close consultation with the intelligence agencies of other countries. From 2003- February 2005 Dr Smith held positions at the Australian Treasury of General Manager, G-20 and APEC Secretariat and General Manager, International Economic Division. From September 2000 until February 2003 she was Assistant Director-General, International Economy Branch at the Office of National Assessments. She is a former Fellow in the Economics Division, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, at the Australian National University (ANU) and a former economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia. Her past research interests included trade, industry, finance and macroeconomics, with an applied focus on Northeast Asia. She has published on Northeast Asian economies; North Korea; the political economy of East Asian development; and on Asia Pacific economic co-operation. She was Australia’s academic representative at the ‘1995 APEC Next Generations Program’, and in 1996/97 was a guest scholar at The Brookings Institution, Washington DC. She received her PhD in Economics from the Australian National University in 1994.
Paul Kelly, Editor-at-Large, The Australian
Paul Kelly is Editor-at-Large of The Australian. He was previously Editor-in-Chief of The Australian. He writes on Australian politics, public policy and history as well as international issues. Paul has covered Australian governments from Gough Whitlam to John Howard and spent two decades working in the Canberra Press Gallery. He is a regular commentator on ABC television for the Insiders program. He holds a Doctor of Letters from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney. He is a 2002 Shorenstein Fellow from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and has been a visiting lecturer at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and in 2006 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. Paul is the author of six books spanning politics and history, The Unmaking of Gough, The Hawke Ascendancy, The End of Certainty, November 1975 (1995), Paradise Divided and in 2001 he presented the five part television documentary for the ABC on Australian history and character ‘100 Years – The Australian Story’ and wrote a book under the same title. In 2003 he co-edited with Peter Dawkins, the former Director of the Melbourne Institute, the book Hard Heads, Soft Hearts on a new domestic reform agenda for Australia. He was Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year (1990) and a double Walkley award winner for excellence in 2001.
Allan Gyngell, Executive Director, Lowy Institute
Allan Gyngell, the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, has a wide background in international policymaking and analysis. He has written and spoken extensively on Australian foreign policy, on Asian regional relations and on the development of global and regional institutions. After graduating in history and political science from Melbourne University he served as an Australian diplomat in Rangoon, Singapore and Washington. He also spent a number of years with the Office of National Assessments, Australia's national intelligence analysis organisation, where he worked on Southeast Asian issues and headed the branch dealing with great power relations at the end of the Cold War. He was later First Assistant Secretary in the International Division of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. From 1993 to 1996 he was foreign policy adviser in the office of the Australian Prime Minister, Paul Keating. After leaving government in 1997 he worked as a consultant to a number of Australian companies. In 2003, he was appointed as the founding Executive Director of the Lowy The second edition of his book Making Australian Foreign Policy, co-written with Professor Michael Wesley, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007.
Hugh White, Professor of Strategic Studies and Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre; Associate Dean (Research), The ANU College of Asia and the Pacific; Visiting Fellow, Lowy Institute of International Policy
Hugh White is the Professor of Strategic Studies and the Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. Before taking up that position he was the first Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), an independent non-partisan centre established by the Australian Government to provide fresh ideas about Australia’s strategic and defence policy choices. Professor White has worked in strategic policy and related fields for two decades. He has served as an intelligence analyst with the Office of National Assessments, as a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald, and as a senior adviser on the staffs of Defence Minister Kim Beazley and Prime Minister Bob Hawke. Before moving to ASPI, he was a senior official in the Department of Defence, where from 1995 to 2000 he was Deputy Secretary for Strategy and Intelligence. Professor White teaches STST8004 Australian Defence and Strategic Planning and contributes to the Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence (GSSD) core courses. He has written on a wide range of Australian defence policy issues and is also a regular commentator in print and other media. Recent television commentary included episode 5 ('Australians on the Front Line') of the ABC Program Difference of Opinion which can be viewed at http://abc.net.au/tv/differenceofopinion/episodes/episode_05.htm, while recent written commentary can be viewed at http://rspas.anu.edu.au/gssd/analysis.php. Paul Dibb, Chairman of the Advisory Board, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
Was Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre from 1991-2003. Other previous positions have included Deputy Secretary of Defence (1988–91); Director, Joint Intelligence Organization (1986–88); Ministerial Consultant to the Minister for Defence (1984–86); Head of the National Assessments Staff, National Intelligence Committee (1974–78). His research interests include Australian defence policy, regional security, and alliance relationships, and he has written widely on these issues. Emeritus Professor Dibb was the author of the Review of Australia’s Defence Capabilities (more commonly known as ‘the Dibb Review’), a Report to the Minister for Defence, published in March 1986.
John Walker, Chairman, Macquarie Group of Companies; Chairman of Australia Korea Foundation
John Walker, Senior Managing Director . John heads the Advisory Division in Korea and is also Chairman of Macquarie's overall Korean operations . John is based in Korea and established Macquarie Capital's Korean business in 2000. He has been responsible for leading major infrastructure projects and privatizations globally. Previously, John was Global Head of Government Business for Macquarie Capital with roles in Canada, the USA, South Africa, the UK and Asia. Prior to joining the Macquarie Group, John was Executive Vice President of Bankers Trust, where he was responsible for both Investment Banking and Funds Management. Earlier in his career, John was as a very senior Australian Government Official holding a number of CEO posts. John holds a MA in Politics from the University of New England. |