Dr. Han received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1970. He went on to a distinguished career in the Korean government, serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1994 and as ambassador to the United States from 2003-2005. In between, he served as the UN Secretary-General’s special representative to Cyprus from 1996-1997, and was a member of the UN’s 1999 Inquiry Commission on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide. Dr. Han is the former chairman of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies.