Prof Han Sung-Joo

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Prof Han Sung-Joo
Republic of Korea (Seoul)
Chairman of the Asian Institute for Policy Studies (AIPS)

Prof Han Sung-Joo is Chairman of the Asian Institute for Policy Studies (AIPS) as well as Professor Emeritus at Korea University. He is also President of the Seoul Forum for International Affairs. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993-94), UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Cyprus (1996-97), a member of the UN Inquiry Commission on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide (1999), Chairman of the East Asia Vision Group (2000-2001), and Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United States (2003-2005).

Prof Han is a graduate of Seoul National University (1962) and received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley (1970). Previously, he taught at City University of New York (1970-78) and was a visiting Professor at Columbia University (1986-87) and Stanford University (1992, 1995). He was also a Distinguished Fellow at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (1986-87).

His English publications include Korean Diplomacy in an Era of Globalization (1995), Korea in a Changing World (1995), and Changing Values in Asia (1999). He has many publications in Korean, including Nam Gwa Puk, kurigo Sekye (The Two Koreas and the World) (2000).