Economic Mentor of Moon Who Laid the Foundation for the 'Inclusive Growth Theory'

National Research Institute Control Tower Seong Gyeong-ryung, Chairman of the Korea Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Sung Kyung-ryong, Chairman of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Evaluation and Planning, is being interviewed by Asia Economy. / Photo by Moon Ho-nam munonam@

[Asia Economy Reporter Kwangho Lee] Sung Kyung-ryung, Chairman of the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology, is an expert in balanced development and welfare policy.

He laid the theoretical foundation for former President Roh Moo-hyun's "Administrative Capital Pledge" during the 2002 presidential election and led the new administrative capital relocation and innovation city plans in Roh's transition committee.

He also attracted attention by advocating the "10,000 Reform Elites Training Theory" to reform the civil service and strengthen expertise.

From 2003 to 2007, he served as the inaugural chairman of the National Balanced Development Committee, and after serving as the last Blue House Policy Chief under the Roh Moo-hyun administration in September 2007, he returned to the faculty at Hallym University.

After President Moon Jae-in lost the 18th presidential election in 2012, he participated as a founding member of Moon's policy advisory group "Simcheonhoe (心天會)," completing the framework for government innovation, welfare state, and local decentralization pledges.

In the 19th presidential election, he served as chairman of Moon Jae-in's Inclusive Nation Committee, proposing policy pledges benchmarking inclusive growth theories such as the Nordic social market economy model.

Chairman Sung was born in 1954 in Jinju, Gyeongnam, graduated from Busan High School and Seoul National University, and earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University in the United States. Since 1991, he has been a professor in the Department of Sociology at Hallym University. He has one son and two daughters.

Below is his biography.

▲ Born in 1954, Jinju, Gyeongnam

▲ Graduated from Busan High School and Seoul National University, Department of Social Welfare

▲ Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University, USA

▲ Joined Hallym University as Professor of Sociology in 1991

▲ Chairman of the Presidential Advisory National Balanced Development Committee in 2003

▲ Blue House Policy Chief in 2007

▲ Chairman of the Inclusive Nation Committee in 2017

▲ Appointed Chairman of the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology in 2018

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