Dr. Lee In-ho is the Chairperson of the Asan Institute and Professor Emeritus of Seoul National University. She was the former Korean Ambassador to the Russian Federation and the Republic of Finland as well as the former President of the Korea Foundation. She laid the foundation for Russian and Soviet Studies in Korea by launching the Korean Association for Russian Studies and establishing the Russian Studies Institute at Seoul National University. She also taught history at Barnard College, Columbia University, and Rutgers University before returning to Korea in 1972. Dr. Lee has been appointed to various governmental and semi-governmental commissions and boards, most notably the Presidential Commission on Education, the National History Compilation Commission, the National Commission on Globalization, and to the board of the Korean Broadcasting System. She received a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University, an M.A. in Soviet Regional Studies from Radcliffe University, and a B.A. in history from Wellesley College.