[Profile] Nam Young-sook, Economic Secretary to the President's Office
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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] Nam Young-sook, the newly appointed Economic Secretary to the President, was born in 1961. She graduated from Seoul Myeongji Girls' High School and Korea University with a degree in Economics, and earned a master's degree in Economics and a Ph.D. in International Development from Stanford University in the United States.
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She has served as an economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), as well as a Free Trade Agreement negotiator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Trade Negotiation Headquarters. Currently, she is a professor in the Department of International Studies at Ewha Womans University Graduate School of International Studies and serves as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Norway.
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