Han Sung Joo

Plenary Session I - "The New Normal"

Prof. Han Sung Joo is Chairman of the International Policy Studies Institute of Korea. He is also Professor Emeritus at Korea University. Prof. Han previously served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993-94), UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Cyprus (1996-97), a member of the UN Inquiry Commission on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide (1999), Chairman of the East Asia Vision Group (2000-01), Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United States (2003-05), and Acting President of Korea University (2002, 2006-07). Previously, he taught at City University of New York (1970-78) and was a visiting Professor at Columbia University (1986-87) and Stanford University (1992, 1995). He was also a Distinguished Fellow at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (1986-87). Prof. Han is a graduate of Seoul National University and received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.