Kim Ki-nam, Chairman of the National Academy of Engineering, Elected as a Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering

Kim Ki-nam, Chairman of the National Academy of Engineering

[Asia Economy Reporter Donghyun Choi] Kim Ki-nam, Chairman of the Korean Academy of Engineering and President of Samsung Electronics' Advanced Institute of Technology, has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) in the United Kingdom.

According to the Academy on the 20th, the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK selected seven foreign members, including Chairman Kim Ki-nam, after a rigorous review process. With this selection as a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Chairman Kim has become the only Korean businessperson to hold membership in the engineering academies of the United States, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Chairman Kim graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in Electronic Engineering and joined Samsung Group in 1981. He earned his master's and doctoral degrees in Electronic Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), respectively. He is recognized as an expert who has contributed to semiconductor technology development for over 40 years.

Chairman Kim led the development of numerous memory technologies, including the world's first 3D V-NAND. He also developed system semiconductor processes (the world's first 14/10 nanometer process), design technologies, and image sensors. Additionally, he contributed to elevating Korea's semiconductor technology to the world’s highest level by being the first to mass-produce high-performance system-on-chip (SoC) products.

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