Dr. Jong-Wha Lee is Senior Advisor to the President for International Economy and G- 20 Sherpa in the Republic of Korea. He is a Professor of Economics at Korea University (currently on leave) and was the Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Head of ADB’s Office of Regional Economic Integration from March 2007 to September 2010.

Dr. Lee has over 20 years of professional experience as an economist and an academic. He worked as Economist at the International Monetary Fund and taught at Harvard University and Australian National University. He had served as a consultant to the Harvard Institute for International Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations Development Programme, and the World Bank.

Dr. Lee was the Director of the International Center for Korean Studies at Korea University. He has published numerous books and reviewed journal articles in English and Korean, especially on topics relating to human capital, growth, financial crisis, and economic integration.

Dr. Lee, a national of the Republic of Korea, obtained his PhD. and Master’s degree in economics from Harvard University, and his Master’s and Bachelor degrees in economics from Korea University in Seoul.

Mark Choi is a senior analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he covers economic and financial market developments in Emerging Asia, with a focus on mainland China, Hong Kong, and Korea. Mark holds an M.A. from the University of California, San Diego and a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University.