Friday, September 20, 2013 10:00 AM
The Korea Society
950 3rd Ave, New York, NY

Korea’s Ambassador for International Security, the Honorable Chung Min Lee, addresses changes on the Korean Peninsula, recent challenges from North Korea, attendant market impacts, and the evolving investment climate for U.S. and international business. This special Studio Korea session lends insight into immediate security concerns, as well as mid and long-term opportunities and challenges. Lee served as a senior campaign advisor to now-President Park Geun-hye and was a Dean and professor at Yonsei University. He appears widely in international media, with numerous publications, and as an authoritative voice on Korea’s evolving political, security and economic perspectives.

$10 Members, $20 Guests, $5 Students

Explorers and Young Professionals’ Network Member tickets are free but registration required here.

9:30 AM :Registration

10:00 AM : Discussion

Learn more about the speaker:
Chung Min Lee is the current Korean Ambassador for International Secuirty. Previously, he was the Dean and Professor of International Relations, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University. Dr. Lee concurrently served as a member of the President’s Foreign Policy Advisory Council and the Presidential Committee on Future & Vision. He was also an advisor to the Prime Minister’s Office, the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Policy and Unification Committee of the National Assembly and other government agencies.

Dr. Lee was a visiting professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (2005–2007), the Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo (2004–2005), a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation (1995–1998), and a visiting research fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo (1994–1995). Dr. Lee also served as a research fellow at the Sejong Institute, Seoul (1989–1994) and the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1985–1988).

Dr. Lee received his MALD and his PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University in 1988 and his BA in political science from Yonsei University in 1982. For over twenty years, Dr. Lee has written extensively on various aspects of East Asian security including strategic developments on the Korean peninsula. His research covers international and Asian security and defense planning, WMD proliferation, crisis management, and intelligence. Dr. Lee has lived in ten countries and is a citizen of the Republic of Korea.

Dr. Lee is a member of the IISS (London) and a member of the board of the Seoul Forum for International Affairs (SFIA).

For more information, please go:
http://www.koreasociety.org/policy/the_korean_peninsula_and_strategic_risk.html