B.S. in Political Science, Seoul National University, Korea; MBA, INSEAD, Singapore/France. Formerly with the Korean National Commission for UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), leading its public-private partnership initiative for educational development, designing and overseeing projects in Sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Uganda) and Asia (DPR Korea, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Philippines and Thailand); Since 2012, with the World Economic Forum, in various positions including Head of Strategy and Community Development, Asia-Pacific and Head of International Organizations and IGWELs; In current role since 2020, in charge of the Forum's institutional collaboration with governments and public sector stakeholders in the APAC Region (Korean Peninsula, Mongolia, Southeast Asia and Australasia), as well as organizing the Forum's flagship meeting in the region (World Economic Forum on ASEAN)
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) outlook is of oneness – one vision, one identity and one community. But it is a vision that the turbulence caused by the fourth industr...
In the more than half century since its founding, ASEAN has historically been a relatively ‘quiet’ trading bloc. Signs suggest, however, that this is changing. Rarely was there a month du...
The ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) region will play host to global leaders later this year with the ASEAN Summits in Cambodia, B20 and G20 Leaders’ Summit in Indonesia and...
The COVID-19 pandemic caused global investment activities to fall – due to economic uncertainties, lockdowns, supply chain disruptions and postponement of investment by multinational ente...
In just one year, spurred by a global pandemic, the world has undergone a dramatic change, marked by widespread and systematic changes to how we live and work. However, as countries aroun...
在平壤于14个月前切断联系后，大韩民国（韩国）和朝鲜民主主义人民共和国（朝鲜）最近终于恢复了两国之间的通信。这一联系渠道的恢复带来了一些希望，即过去几个月中加剧的紧张关系有可能被更多的对话所取代。然而，要想实现朝鲜半岛长期持久的安全，需要一个更全面的方法，使利益相关方保持步调一致，解决人道主义问题，并考虑关键国家的国内政治议题。
The Republic of Korea (ROK) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) recently restored a communications hotline between their capitals after Pyongyang had severed the connecti...
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused prolonged socio-economic disruptions in the ASEAN region, exposing fundamental weaknesses and vulnerabilities in various sectors. Yet with steady measures...
At the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum earlier this year, António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, pointed out the trend of weakening coordination within the ...
