Mr. Inchul Kim is a professor emeritus in the Economics department at Sung Kyun Kwan University, Seoul, South Korea. He earned a PhD in economics at the University of Chicago and has taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and American University, Washington, DC. In South Korea, he worked at the Korea Development Institute as a senior fellow for three years and served as the adviser to the Minister of Finance for three years before returning to the academic world. His main fields are international economics and economic development.

Kim has been doing research work on foreign debt management and exchange rate policy. Taking some years off from the university, he served as president of Incheon Development Institute. Kim also served as foreign investment ombudsman of South Korea for full three years. His job was to resolve numerous problems for foreign investors. Currently more than 17,000 foreign investors are operating their businesses in South Korea.

Kim received the Cheong Ram Prize from the Korean Economic Association in 1988. This prize is given to the best economist of the year below 40 years of age. He has been a columnist since 2015 writing economic articles for the Korea Times, Korea’s daily English-language newspaper.

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