Professor Ryu Geun-gwan of Seoul National University’s Department of Economics Appointed as Head of Statistics Korea
Ryu Geun-gwan, Nominee for Commissioner of the Korea National Statistical Office (Photo by Cheong Wa Dae)
View original image[Asia Economy Reporter Kwangho Lee] On the 23rd, President Moon Jae-in nominated Professor Ryu Geun-gwan of the Department of Economics at Seoul National University as the Commissioner of Statistics Korea.
Nominee Ryu was born in 1960 and graduated from Jungdong High School in Seoul and the Department of Economics at Seoul National University. He completed a master's degree in economics at Seoul National University and earned a master's degree in statistics and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in the United States. He has served as an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at UCLA, president of the Korean Association of Applied Economics, and director of the Seoul National University Economic Research Institute. He is currently a professor in the Department of Economics at Seoul National University.
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Kang Min-seok, spokesperson for the Blue House, said, "(Nominee Ryu) is expected to significantly contribute to enhancing the reliability of national statistics to a higher level and providing useful statistical information to the public, based on his outstanding expertise as a statistics expert and communication skills."
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