[Profile] Lee Gi-soon, Vice Minister of Gender Equality and Family... Expert in Women and Youth Policies

[Asia Economy Reporter Han Jinju] Lee Gi-soon (59), the newly appointed Vice Minister of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, is a seasoned bureaucrat in the fields of women and youth.

She is from Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province, graduated from Korea University with a degree in History, and has worked at the National Museum of Korea under the Ministry of Culture and Public Information, the Office of the Second Minister for Political Affairs, the Presidential Commission on Women, the Ministry of Gender Equality, and the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family.

She graduated from the Graduate School of Women’s Studies at York University in Canada in 1998, and earned a Ph.D. in Women’s Studies from Ewha Womans University in 2016.

At the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, she served as Director of Financial Planning, Head of the Innovation Personnel Team, Director of the Bureau for the Promotion of Rights, Head of the Women’s Economic Crisis Countermeasures Task Force, Director of Family Policy, Director of Women’s Policy, Spokesperson, Director of Planning and Coordination, and Director of Youth and Family Policy. In November 2018, she was appointed Chairperson of the Youth Counseling and Welfare Institute. In March, she was appointed as an invited professor at the Graduate School of Humanities at Chungnam National University.

▲Gapyeong, Gyeonggi ▲Songgok Girls’ High School ▲Korea University, Department of History ▲York University Graduate School of Women’s Studies, Canada ▲Ewha Womans University, Ph.D. in Women’s Studies ▲National Museum of Korea, Ministry of Culture and Public Information ▲Office of the Second Minister for Political Affairs ▲Presidential Commission on Women ▲Director of the Bureau for the Promotion of Rights, Ministry of Gender Equality and Family ▲Director of Family Policy, Ministry of Gender Equality and Family ▲Director of Women’s Policy, Ministry of Gender Equality and Family ▲Spokesperson, Ministry of Gender Equality and Family ▲Director of Planning and Coordination, Ministry of Gender Equality and Family ▲Director of Youth and Family Policy, Ministry of Gender Equality and Family ▲Chairperson, Youth Counseling and Welfare Institute

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