Professor Lee is a professor in the Graduate School of International Studies and the director of the Center for Modern Korean Studies and the Center for American Studies at Yonsei University. Previously, he was the dean of the Underwood International College (UIC) at Yonsei and has taught at the University of California, Berkeley’s Department of International and Area Studies, the University of Tokyo, and at Keio University’s Faculty of Law. Prof. Lee served or currently serves as an advisor to South Korea’s National Security Council, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the National Assembly, and the Ministry of Unification. He is also co-chair of ‘Save NK,’ a non-governmental organization dealing with North Korean defectors, CEO of Future Korea Weekly, and the vice-chair of the support group for the ‘House of Sharing’ where several remaining ‘comfort women’ are housed. He received his B.A. from Tufts University, MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford (St. Antony’s College).