Lee Sook Jong

Plenary Session 1 - "South Korea and Its Neighbors"

 

Prof. Lee Sook Jong is a distinguished professor at the Graduate School of Governance at Sungkyunkwan University. She served the East Asia Institute as President (2008-2018) and now serves as a Senior Fellow of the Institute. She created the Asian Democracy Research Network in 2015 and has been working with the Network’s twenty-three research organizations across Asia to promote democracy studies with the support of the National Endowment for Democracy. Previously, Prof. Lee was a Research Fellow at the Sejong Institute, a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Professorial Lecturer at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, and a Visiting Scholar at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies. Prof. Lee was also a member of the Steering Committee of the World Movement for Democracy for 6 years. She held numerous advisory positions in the South Korean government over the years, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and multiple committees set up by the previous President’s Office. Her recent publications include Populism in Asian Democracies: Features, Structures, and Impacts (eds. Brill, 2021), Collaborative Governance in East Asia: Evolution Towards Multi-stakeholder Partnerships (eds. Daeyoung, 2020), Transforming Global Governance with Middle Power Diplomacy: South Korea’s Role in the 21st Century (ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), and Public Diplomacy and Soft Power in East Asia (eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Prof. Lee received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University.