The 8th NTCT National Focal Points Meeting & 2024 NTCT Conference
Wednesday 27 March, 2024Seoul, Korea

Biographies of Participants<ROK>
Amb. LEE Moonhee (李文熙 ) was inaugurated as the Senior Executive Director of Institute of Foreign Affairs
and National Security, Korea National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic ofKorea, on March 2023. Prior to this responsibility, he had served as Secretary to the President for Foreign Affairs,
Office of National Security (2022).
He also served as Secondment to the Presidential Transition Committee (2022); Secondment to the Incorporated
Foundation 2030 Busan World Expo Committee (2021); Director-General for North Korean Nuclear Affairs, MOFA(2019); Principal Advisor to the Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2017); Senior Assistant Secretary, Office ofNational Security (2017); Senior Assistant Secretary, Office of the President (2016); Counsellor, Korean Permanent
Mission to the United Nations in New York, U.S.A. (2013); Director, North Korean Nuclear Affairs Negotiations
Division, North Korean Nuclear Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2012); Assistant Secretary,Office of the President (2009); Counsellor, Korean Embassy in the Republic of Iraq (2007); First Secretary, Korean
Embassy in the United States of America (2004). He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea in1996 by passing High Diplomatic Service Examination.
He holds a Master’s degree in Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., U.S.A.(2000) and a
Bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature, Korea University, Seoul, Korea (1998).

Amb. KIM Jonghan (金鍾翰) is Director-General for Indo-Pacific Studies in the Institute of Foreign Affairs andNational Security (IFANS) of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy. He graduated from the Department of Chinese
Language and Literature of the Seoul National University, and joined in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1994. Before
he came to the current position, He was the Ambassador to Cameroon (2020.6-2023.6). Previously, he had been theDirector of Northeast Asia Regional Cooperation Team and the Director of Overseas Koreans Division. He was postedin Beijing (1st Secretary and Minister Counsellor), Shenyang (Consul), Australia (Counsellor), and Los Angeles(Consul) as well.

Dr. KIM Hankwon (金漢權) is an associate professor of the Department of Asian and Pacific Studies and thehead of Center for Chinese Studies at Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS), Korea National
Diplomatic Academy (KNDA), MOFA. Before joining KNDA, Dr. Kim completed a postdoctoral program at Tsinghua
University, China, then worked as a research fellow and the director of the Center for Regional Studies and the Centerfor China Studies at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul, South Korea. Dr. Kim received his B.A. (politicalscience) and M.P.A. from the University of Connecticut at Storrs, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations
from American University, USA. He is co-author of U.S.-China Strategic Competition (Seoul: Paper Road, 2020). He1

has also published articles in several academic books and journals, including "The 30 Years of ROK-PRC ForeignRelations" Review of International and Area Studies Vol. 31, No. 2 (2022, Summer); “Evaluating China’s Soft Power:Dimensions of Norms and Attraction” in Assessing China’s Power Ed by Jae Ho Chung (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Dr. LEE Hyo-young (李效映) is associate professor at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA),
teaching and conducting research on issues regarding International Trade & Diplomacy. Before joining KNDA in 2017,
she worked as research fellow at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) during 2013-2016, andalso served as Assistant Director for Trade, Industry and Energy at the Presidential Office (2014-2015). She has written
on various research topics, including: “Economic Security: Concept and Application” (2022), “Evolution andEvaluation of International Rules on Digital Trade” (2021), “Current Trends and Prospects for Asia Regional Economic
Integration: RCEP and CPTPP” (2021), “Regulation of Subsidies and U.S.-China Strategic Competition” (2020).
Professor Lee obtained her Ph.D. in international studies at Seoul National University, majoring in international trade
law and policy.

Dr. PYO Nari (表娜俐) joined as an assistant professor of the Department of Asian and Pacific Studies of theIFANS, KNDA in 2019. Prior to this appointment, she served China Institute Sogang University as a Research scholar(2017-2019). Studied and received Ph.D. degree in dept. of International Relations at Tsinghua Univ, in Beijing. Withthe dissertation “The Uniqueness of China Aid: Analysis from the Culture and Values point of view”. Research focusedon China’s Foreign Policy; Cultures in International Relations; Non-Traditional Security and Public Diplomacy.
Recently published articles are “A Critical Contribution on a Functional Approach to Sino-Korean Relations: Throughthe Lens of Culture”, “Overlapping Historical Memories, Shared Cultural Traditions and Conflicting Nationalism: A
Comparative Analysis of Korea-China Social & Cultural Conflicts and Response Policies”, “China’s Foreign Aid in a
‘New Era’: Focusing on Health Diplomacy amid the Covid-19” and “The Contents and Implications of China’s Arctic
Policy and the “Polar Silk Road”.

Dr. CHOI Jinbaek (崔鎭百) is a research professor of Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of Foreign Affairs andNational Security, Korea National Diplomatic Academy. Prof. CHOI obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University ofChicago with a dissertation entitled “Embedded Authoritarianism: China’s Labor Politics and its MarketTransformation.” He taught at Seoul National University and Kyunghee University in Korea. He published many
articles about China’s reform politics and its implication for China’s foreign policies. Unlike previous decades of market
reform, China lately comes to fashion its economy with state capitalism under Xi Jinping’s authoritarian leadership.
Prof. Choi has tried to uncover how China’s politics of state capitalism comes to end up with US-China’s competition.
His recent research covers the issues of US-China’s strategic rivalry in the areas of trade, high-tech development,innovation competition, and derisking politics.

Dr. YOON Sukjung (尹錫貞) is a research professor of the Center for Japanese Studies of the IFANS, KNDA.
Before joining the KNDA, he served as a researcher at Kookmin University’s Institute of Japanese Studies. His research
field includes ROK-Japan relationship, Japanese foreign policy. His representative studies are “ROK-Japanese Public2

Perception between Future Oriented Cooperation and Historical Problem” (2023); “Japan’s Security Policy after the ‘3
Security Document’: Assessment and Implication” (2023), “Japan’s New Flan for FOIP: Analysis and Implication”(2023); “The War in Ukraine and Japan’s Foreign Policy” (2022), “The Yoon Suk Yeol Administration’s Policy toward
Japan and ROK-Japan Relations: Assessment and Outlook” (2022); Dr. YOON recieved his Ph.D. in Political Sciencefrom Keio University.

Dr. JEONG Sangmi(鄭相美) is a Research Professor at the Center for Geo-political Studies at the Korea National
Diplomatic Academy (KNDA). She earned her Ph.D. in Government and Public Policy from the University of Arizonain 2019, specializing in International Relations and Comparative Politics. She also holds a B.A. and M.A. inInternational Relations from Seoul National University. From 2020 to 2022, she taught undergraduate courses oninternational conflicts, American foreign policy, comparative politics, and introductory statistics at Creighton
University. Her research interests center on the domestic sources of foreign policy, protests and civil resistance,
repression and human rights, and East Asian politics. Her primary research agenda focuses on the effectiveness ofprotests as bargaining leverage in international negotiations.

<China>Dr. GUO Yanjun (郭延军) is professor & director of the Institute of Asian Studies at China Foreign Affairs
University. He is Chinese country coordinator of the NEAT China (Network of East Asian Think-tanks), NACT China(Network of ASEAN-China Think-tanks) and NTCT China (Network of Trilateral Cooperation Think-tanks). He also
serves as a senior research fellow at the Innovation Center on National Territorial Sovereignty and Maritime Rights andthe Innovation Center on China’s Neighboring Diplomacy. He specializes in the study of regional cooperation in EastAsia.

Dr. SU Hao (苏浩) is Professor from China Foreign Affairs University. He was awarded his B.A. in history and M.A.
in international relations by Beijing Normal University and a Ph.D. in international relations by China Foreign Affairs
University. He was acting chairman of the Department of Diplomacy, director of China’s Foreign Relations Section,general secretary of the East Asian Studies Center, and director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies at China Foreign
Affairs University. He is the president of the Beijing Geopolitical Strategy and Development Association, a member ofthe Chinese Committee for Council of Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific and the Pacific Economic Cooperation
Council, a board member of the China Association of Arms Control and Disarmament, the Pacific Society of China, theChina Association of Asian-African Development Exchange, and the China Association of China-ASEAN. His
specialties are China’s foreign and security policy, strategic studies, international relations in the Asia-Pacific region,and East Asian integration.

Dr. DONG Xiangrong (董向榮) is Senior research fellow in National Institute of International Strategy, Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences(NIIS, CASS) and professor in School of International Political Economy, University ofChinese Academy of Social Sciences. She was a member of the Committee for Future Development of China-ROKRelations (2021-2022). She graduated from the Department of History, Peking University. She has authored several
books such as How the Koreans View China(2012), South Korea’s Take-off and the Role of the USA(2005) and so on.
She has published many articles in Chinese and English, including ”Shared History, Divided Consciousness: The3

Origins of the Sino-ROK Cultural Clash amid the Pandemic, Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies，July, 2021”; ”China’sDilemma on the Korean Peninsula, The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, June 2013”, etc.

Dr. CUI Haining (崔海宁) is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Asian Studies, China
Foreign Affairs University. She was awarded her PhD at the School of International Studies at Renmin University ofChina in 2005. Ever since the year of 2005, she has long been engaged in track II processes in East Asia, which mainly
includes the Network of East Asian Think-tanks. Her research realm includes East Asian cooperation and integration,China neighborhood diplomacy and non-traditional security cooperation. She has published several books and many
academic papers and policy reports in the areas mentioned above.

Dr. FU Shaojun (付韶军) is Associate Professor from the School of International Economics at China Foreign
Affairs University. He hosts academic grants from National Social Science Foundation of China and the Beijing
Municipal Social Science Foundation and has published academic papers on Finance and Trade Economics,Quantitative and Technological Economics, Asia-Pacific Economy, and Exploration of International Issues. Dr Fu's
current research areas include international trade and investment; digital economy and digital trade; and economic
diplomacy. He obtained his PhD in Economics from Renmin University of China in 2011.

Dr. ZHU Xiaoqi (朱晓琦) is an assistant professor at the School of International Studies of Renmin University ofChina. She also serves as a research fellow at the Institute of National Development and Strategy of RUC. Her research
focuses on contemporary Japanese politics and diplomacy, Sino-Japanese Relations and international relations in theAsia-Pacific region. Professor Zhu holds a Ph.D from Beijing University and Waseda University, Japan.

Dr. MIAO Ji (苗吉) is associate professor of the Institute of Asian Studies and and senior research fellow of CJK
Trilateral Cooperation Studies Center, China Foreign Affairs University. He holds a doctor’s degree in internaitonal
relations from School of International Studies, Renmin University of China and political science from Graduate Schoolof Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Japan. His research interests cover Japan politics and foreign policy,
China’s political decision-making, Asian regionalism and international relations of the Indo-Pacific. He was academic
associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University 2022-2023.

<Japan>Prof. WATANABE Mayu (渡辺繭) is President of the Japan Forum on International Relations (JFIR).
Graduated from Chiba University. Received M.A. in Education from the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo in
1997. Joined the Japan Forum on International Relations (JFIR) in 2000 and appointed Senior research fellow in
2007, during which period she specialized in global human resource development and public diplomacy. Appointed
Executive Director in 2011 and assumed Senior Executive Director in 2017. She has served as President since 2018.
Concurrently serving as President of the Council on East Asian Community (CEAC) and President of the Global Forumof Japan (GFJ).

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Prof. SHINODA Kunihiko (篠田邦彦) is Professor of National Graduate Institute For Policy Studies (GRIPS).
He received M.A from University of Tokyo in 1988 and M.S.I.A from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. He joined
Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in 1988 and was Director (APEC&FTA), Trade Policy Bureau,METI (2005-2008), Director, Financial Cooperation Division, Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, (20082010), Director, Asia and Pacific Division, Trade Policy Bureau (2010-2012) and Deputy Director-General for TradePolicy, Trade Policy Bureau (2017-2019). He was engaged in negotiations on FTAs such as RCEP and economic
cooperation with ASEAN, China and India in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). He was alsoposted in Asian countries such as the Embassy of Japan in the Philippines (1996-1999), JODC Bangkok Office (20022005), JOGMEC Beijing Office (2012-2014) and Japan-China Economic Association Beijing Office (2014-2017). He
was seconded to the GRIPS in 2019 and become a professor at GRIPS in 2022. He has been engaged in research andeducation on Asian economy and Indo-Pacific cooperation.

Prof. MIURA Hideyuki (三浦秀之) is associate professor of international relations at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Kyorin University. Prior to taking up his position, he was a senior fellow at the Global Institute for Asian Regional Integration, Waseda University and a research associate at the Asian Development Bank Institute. He was also a junior visiting research fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). His
current research interests include Japanese foreign economic policy, U.S.-Japan relations, international trade
policy, and Asia-Pacific economic integration. His recent work includes “the decision-making process of U.S. T
rade Policy toward China in the Trump Administration” in the Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies (forthcoming).
He received his BA from Sophia University, and MA and Ph.D. in international relations from Waseda University.

Prof. KIKUCHI Yona (菊池誉名) is Director and Senior Research Fellow, JFIR. Graduated from Faculty ofInternational Studies at Meiji Gakuin University in 2002. Received M.A. from International Cooperation Research
Course (ICRC) of Kyorin University in 2004. Completed Ph.D program without a Ph.D. degree, in ICRC of Kyorin
University in 2007. He served as an Special Analyst of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as a Researcher at ResearchInstitute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). Joined JFIR in 2008 and became Senior Research Fellow in 2012.
He has served as Director since 2018. Concurrently serving as Executive Vice President of the Council on East Asian
Community (CEAC).

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Mr. YAN Liang (颜亮) currently serves as the Deputy Secretary-General at the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat.
Obtaining his M.A. in Public Administration from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) of Japan
in 2005, he embarked on his professional journey as a diplomat since 1997 with the Foreign Ministry of China,
showcasing a diverse career path spanning various diplomatic roles. His experiences include positions such as Directorof the UN Association of China (UNA-China), as well as Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the Ceasefire andTransitional Security Arrangements Monitoring Mechanism (CTSAMM) and Deputy Secretary-General of the Secretaria
t of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC), both in South Sudan, setup by IGAD. Prior to hiscurrent role, Yan Liang served as counsellor of Department of International Organizations and Conferences in Foreign
Ministry of China. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated expertise in international relations, diplomacy, and5

organizational leadership, contributing significantly to China's engagement in multilateral cooperation and peace
initiatives.

Mr. YAMAMOTO Tomotsugu (山本智嗣) currently serves as the Director of the Department of Political
Affairs at the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat. He started his career as a foreign service officer since 2000 with theMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Prior to his current role, he served as Deputy Director of the Public Records
Oversight Division in the Cabinet Office of Japan.

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