About the Speaker

Chung-in Moon is a professor of political science at Yonsei University and editor-in-chief of Global Asia, a new quarterly magazine. He served as dean of Yonsei’s Graduate School of International Studies. He was also chairman of the Presidential Committee on Northeast Asian Cooperation Initiative, a cabinet-level post, and ambassador for International Security Affairs with the ROK Ministryof Foreign Affairs and Trade. He has published over 40 books and 230 articles in edited volumes and such scholarly journals as World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and the World Development. His recent publications include The United States and Northeast Asia: Debates, Issues, and New Order, Handbook of Korean Unification, Arms Control on the Korean Peninsula, and Ending the Cold War in Korea. He attended the first and second Pyongyang Korean summit as a special delegate. He was a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C.  He served as vice president of the International Studies Association (ISA) of North America and president of the Korea Peace Research Association.  He is currently a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy (Los Angeles), the Institute of International Strategic Studies (London), and fellow of the Club of Madrid. He is an ASEAN Regional Forum-Expert and Eminent Person (ARF-EEP) representing South Korea and served as co-chair of the first and second ARF-EEPs meetings in June 2006 and February 2007. He is a board member of the Korea Foundation, the Sejong Foundation, the East Asia Foundation, the International Peace Foundation, and the Pacific Century Institute.