President, Hankyoreh Economy & Society Research Institute (HERI)​​​
 

Research Fellow, Hankyoreh Economy & Society Research Intitute (HERI)​​
 

Director of Parti Co-op​​
 

Jinsun Lee, Ph.D. is a founder & chairperson of the WAGL (We-All-Govern-Lab), which aims to promote Internet-based civic activism and grassroots democracy by engaging more citizens in consensus-making processes based on deliberative discussion under the politically polarized communication circumstances.
 
After having earned a Ph.D. degree (Media Studies) at Rutgers University, she worked as an Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University in the U.S. As an activist and researcher, she is now serving for "Citizens" Coalition for Democratic Media (NGO for Media activism) and "Vanzeon" (innovative political school for the MZ generation.) ​
 

I graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in Nuclear Engineering and completed master's degree in Educational Technology at Hanyang University, where I am currently preparing for my doctoral dissertation. Professionally, I have spent slightly over a decade as a planner in the field of traditional arts and music festival team. More recently, I have predominantly worked as a researcher in arts policy.

I have a keen interest in the relationship between the social change based on technology and culture-art field, post-humanism, and matters related to faith and alternative education. I switch between being an activist and a researcher, and I hope to continue being a field-based researcher in the future if possible.

 

Dr. Seung-yoon Lee obtained her Ph.D. in Social Policy from Oxford University in the UK with her thesis on a comparative study between East Asian welfare states and non-regular workers. 
 
She is an associate professor of social policy at Chung-Ang university, Seoul, South Korea. Her major research fields are East Asian welfare states and labor markets, precarious worker, institutionalism and comparative research methodology. He published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and books(co-authored) including “Female outsiders in South Korea’s dual labour market: Challenges of equal pay for work of equal value (2020)”, “Institutional Legacy of State Corporatism in De-industrial Labor Markets (2016)”, “Korean Precarious Workers” (Co-authored Book, 2017) etc. 
 
She was also the first Vice-Chairperson of the Youth Policy Coordination Committee in the Prime Minister’s Office.

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Ilcheong YI is Senior Research Coordinator at UNRISD (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development) in Geneva, Switzerland. Born in the Republic of Korea, he was trained as both political scientist (B.A. and M.A. from the Dept. of Political Science, Seoul National University, the Republic of Korea) and social policy analyst (D.Phil from Oxford University, the UK).
 
He has been researching various issues of alternative economies, social policy, and international development cooperation, in particular, the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE), measurement of sustainable development performance, and transformative social policy.
 
Prior to joining UNRISD in 2008, he was Associate Professor of Kyushu University, Japan (2004-2008), Korean Foundation Visiting Professor, Dept. of East Asian Studies of Malaya University, Malaysia (2003-2004) and Visiting Research Fellow of the Stein Rokkan Centre, Bergen University, Norway (2002-2003).​
 

Senior Research Associate, Hankyoreh Economy & Society Research Institute (HERI)

Dr. NA, Suk-Kwon is the president of the Center for Social value Enhancement Studies (CSES).  
The center was established in April 2018 to standardize social value measurement and conduct research to solve various social problems with people who pursue the same mission. Dr. Na joined the center in April 2019. 
 
Previously, He worked for the Ministry of Economy and Finance for 25 years and conducted economic policy planning and coordination, deregulation, and international trade-related tasks. During that period, he held several major positions, including the Director of policy coordination and Director-General of the Statistical Policy Department. 
 
He also gained a variety of experiences through his dispatch to the Presidential Office (the Cheongwadae) of S. Korea, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the consulate general of the Republic of Korea in New York City, USA. 
 
He received a doctorate in economics from the University of Missouri. From 2017 to 2019, he served as a Senior Research Fellow at SK Research Institute (SKRI). With these experiences in the public and private sectors, he is continuing his efforts to spread social values and establish an ecosystem of social innovation.​

Eun Sun Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Gyeongsang National University.
 
She received her B.A. in Economics from Kyung Hee University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Public Administration from Korea University.
 
Both of her master"s and doctoral dissertations are on social enterprise. Before joining GNU, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Community Wellbeing Research Center, Seoul National University, and at the Graduate School of Governance at Sungkyunkwan University.
 
She is the author of Social Enterprise, Policy Entrepreneurs, and the Third Sector: The Case of South Korea (2015). Her research interests include social and solidarity economy, social value measurement, civil society, and governance.
 
From November 2020 to June 2021, she participated in UNRISDs SDPI pilot test and directly performed tests for three Korean companies.​​

Jiyeon Jang works for Korea Social Value and Solidarity Foundation as a program director.
Before joining social sector, she had worked in the IT industry for companies like Daum Communications and KTH. 
 
She worked at SOPOONG, a social venture incubating company, from 2009 to 2011. In 2013, she participated in the establishment of the Seoul Social Economy Center and worked for 5 years. 
She is responsible for building the social finance ecosystem, including investor development, capacity building, and research. 
 
She completed her doctoral program at the Department of Cooperative Management at the Sungkonghoe University.

Taehan has been working as a principal researcher at the Korea Sustainability Investing Forum since 2011.


He manages the Korean program of CDP, a global climate information disclosure project, and is also in charge of global initiatives such as RE100, SBTi, and PCAF. He also participated in the revision of the National Pension Act for ESG investment of the National Pension Service.


He is main author of annual CDP Korea Report, ESG Financial Report, and Fossil Fuell Finance Report.

He has experience in ESG evaluation and ESG theme research at Sustinvest, an ESG research firm, and was in charge of domestic equity ESG research at NH Amundi Asset Managements equity research department. 
 
Currently, he is in charge of ESG research and process establishment to integrate ESG into domestic equity and fixed income investments at Kiwoom Investment Asset Management.​

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