Yoon Young-kwan

Plenary Session 1 - "World in Turbulence"

Dr. Yoon Young-kwan is the Chairman of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies and a professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Seoul National University. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea (2003-2004). Dr. Yoon worked as a Senior Visiting Scholar with the Korea Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and taught at the Department of Government at Harvard University as the Kim Koo Visiting Professor (2021). He served as the Vice President of the Seoul Forum for International Affairs (2013-2019), the Chairman of the Advisory Committee of Parliamentary Diplomacy of the Korean National Assembly (2019-2020), and Korea’s Eminent Representative to, and co-chair of, the East Asia Vision Group II (ASEAN+3 Summit) (2011-2012). He has published a dozen books and some 80 articles in the fields of international political economy, Korea’s foreign policy, and inter-Korean relations, some of which have appeared in World Politics, International Political Science Review, The National Interest, Asian Survey, and Project Syndicate. Dr. Yoon received his Ph.D. from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.