The Korea Society is pleased to announce a special forum on the emerging international economic landscape and industrial strategy in today’s shifting global environment: U.S.-Korea Economic Relations in a New Tariff Era: Economic and Industrial Perspectives Co-hosted with the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in New York, this forum will examine how rising tariffs and currency fluctuations are reshaping global value chains, trade, and investment between the two nations.
The program will feature a keynote address by Dr. Maurice Obstfeld, former Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund and one of the most influential voices in global macroeconomics, followed by a panel discussion with experts from shipbuilding, automotive, and semiconductor sectors. A second panel discussion will focus on strengthening supply-chain resilience through strategic localization and cross-border management strategies.
This program is invitation-only. TKS Individual members interested in attending are invited to RSVP; participation will be confirmed based on limited seating availability.
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U.S.-Korea Economic Relations in a New Tariff Era: Economic and Industrial Perspectives
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 | 3 PM (EST)
The Korea Society
350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10017
About the Speaker
Maurice Obstfeld is the C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Class of 1958 Professor of Economics Emeritus at UC Berkeley. He joined Berkeley in 1989 as a professor, following appointments at Columbia (1979-1986) and the University of Pennsylvania (1986-1989). He was also a visiting professor at Harvard between 1989 and 1991. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1979, following degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Cambridge. In 2014-2015 he was a Member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, and from 2015-2018 he served as chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. Before that, he was an honorary adviser to the Bank of Japan’s Institute of Monetary and Economic Studies. Obstfeld joined the Peterson Institute as a nonresident senior fellow in 2019. Among his honors are the Frank Graham Memorial Lecture at Princeton, the inaugural Mundell-Fleming Lecture of the International Monetary Fund, the Bernhard Harms Prize and Lecture of the Kiel Institute for World Economy, the L. K. Jha Memorial Lecture at the Reserve Bank of India, the Richard T. Ely Lecture of the American Economic Association, the Harry Johnson Lecture of the Money Macro and Finance Society, and the Andrew Crockett Memorial Lecture at the Bank for International Settlements. Professor Obstfeld is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2023, he was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association. He is active as a Distinguished Fellow of the Paris-based Centre for Economic Policy Research and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.