KIEP Appoints Professor Lee Si-wook of KDI as New President

Lee Si-wook, New President of the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy

Professor Lee Si-wook of the Graduate School of International Studies at the Korea Development Institute (KDI) has been appointed as the new president of the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP).

On the 20th, the Economic and Social Research Institute under the Prime Minister's Office held a regular board meeting and appointed Professor Lee as the 12th president of KIEP.

The new president graduated from Yonsei University with a degree in economics and earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan, USA. He has served as a research fellow at KDI, head of the Institutional Research Office at the Regulatory Research Center, and director of planning at the Graduate School of International Studies. After serving as president of the Korean Association of Trade and International Studies (KATIS) last year, he worked as a professor at the KDI Graduate School of International Studies. His main research areas include international trade, international economics, economic growth, and development cooperation.

The term of the new president is three years.

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