* Steering Committee Members

- Co-Chairs
　Park, Hun-Joon (Director, Yonsei Social Enterprise Center)
　Shim, Sang-Dal (Senior Research Fellow, Korea Development Institute)

- Members
　Ahn, Byong-Hun (Vice President and Dean, KAIST Business School)
　Kwon, Young-June (Professor, KyungHee University)
　Lee, Chull-Young (Chairman, ARK Investment)
　Lee, Kyung-mook (Professor, Seoul National University)
　Park, Sang-Yong (Dean, Yonsei University School of Business)
　Park, Won-Soon (Executive Director, The Hope Institute)
　Rhee, Seung-Kyu (Director, CSR Research Center, KAIST)
　Yoon, Young-Sup (Professor, Korea University)

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Molly Alexander

Molly Alexander has worked at Acumen Fund since September 2004. Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Acumen Fund believes that the poor seek dignity not dependence and thus they seek to prove that small amounts of philanthropic capital, combined with large doses of business acumen, can build thriving enterprises that serve vast numbers of the poor. At Acumen Fund, Molly is focused on building and engaging Acumen Fund’s community of partners who support their work by investing both funds and experience to maximize the potential of the enterprises in which they invest. Molly has extensive experience living and working overseas, and prior to moving to New York managed a small business in Sydney, Australia creating market-based distribution channels for cottage industry products from remote areas of Tasmania. Molly holds a Bachelor of Asian Studies Degree with a double major in international relations and Korean studies from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney. One of five national recipients of a prestigious UNSW Business School scholarship, Molly completed her degree at Seoul National University in South Korea.
 

Yoon-Suk Baik

Yoon-Suk Baik is currently an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at KAIST Business School of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Seoul, Korea. He earned his Ph.D. in Management from Purdue University, and two master’s degrees, an M.A. in Public Policy and Management from the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from Drexel University. He received his B.B.A from Seoul National University, Korea. As an Applied Economist, he is interested in firm theories, strategy implications of technology, law, politics, social issues, and responsible corporate capitalism.
 

Elizabeth Boggs-Davidsen

Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen is a Senior Investment Officer in the private sector group of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) working for the Opportunities for the Majority Initiative. The Initiative promotes and finances private sector business models that develop and deliver quality products and services, create employment and enable low income producers and consumers to join the formal economy.
During her career at the IDB, Elizabeth has served as a Policy Advisor to the IDB’s Executive Vice President and as the Principal Coordinator of the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF). Before joining the IDB, she worked for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in New York, Africa and Europe.
 

Raymond Horton

A lawyer and political scientist, Professor Horton teaches the course Modern Political Economy. A member of the Columbia Business School faculty since 1970, he served two years while on leave from the School as Executive Director of the Temporary Commission on City Finances during the New York City fiscal crisis, and later served 15 years as Director of Research and President of the Citizens Budget Commission. His publications on municipal finance and management include 14 books, numerous journal articles and policy studies. In 1983, he founded the Public and Nonprofit Management Program at the School. In 1998, that program morphed into the Social Enterprise Program, which Horton directed until 2009. In 2009, he was named Faculty Director of Social Enterprise programs in the School’s Executive Education division. As part of his executive education responsibilities, Professor Horton directs custom programs for the Center for Curatorial Leadership and the King Khalid Foundation.
 

Hyung-Hwan Joo

Hyunghwan Joo is the Head of Executive Office for Future Planning which supports Presidential Council for Future & Vision. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Illinois. He formerly worked as the Director of the Banking System Division of the Ministry of Finance & Economy. He also served as an Advisor for the Directors' Office of the World Bank and a Senior Advisor for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
 

Chul-Ki Ju

Chul Ki Ju is currently the Vice President and Secretary-General of the Global Compact Korea Network. He retired from the diplomatic career at the end of 2006 after winding up long career as Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador to Morocco and Mauritania, and ultimately in France. He also served as Ambassador to UNESCO where he assumed the role of Chairman of ASPAC Group. At home, he served as Director-General of Economic Affairs of the Korean Foreign Ministry covering ASEM, APEC, WTO, OECD as well as Environment, Energy and Development Issues. He represented his government at many international conferences as chief delegate. He was also Chairman of the Asian Group at the Human Rights Commission in Geneva and Vice Chairman of the Regional Trade Agreement Committee of the WTO. He taught at Yonsei University, Korea, as Visiting Professor and now teaches at the Graduate School of International Studies of Seoul National University. He led efforts to promote the UN Global Compact in Korea and set up Global Compact Local Network in September 2007 and served there as Vice President and Secretary General. He studied at the Graduate School of Public Administration in France and also received his Master’s Degree in International Politics at the Free Brussels University in Belgium. He wrote a book titled, "France in the 21st Century" and contributes various articles on the UN system, international politics and economics as well as UN Global Compact.
 

Yong-Wook Jun

Professor Yong Wook Jun, a Korean native, is a graduate of Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and Sloan School of Management, MIT for his master’s and Ph.D., respectively.
He is currently the Dean of Chung-Ang Business School, Chung-Ang University.
His major research area is on the internationalization process and the formulation of global strategies of Korean firms. His most recent research was on the survival strategies of Korean firms in the turbulent environment.
Professor Jun was actively involved in the actual business fields by serving as a Business Consultant for major Korean firms such as Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motors and SK Telecom. He also worked as an External Director for Hynix Semiconductor, Plenus Entertainment and Ssangyong Corp.
He is currently elected as the President of the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration for year 2010.
 

Kern Koh

Kern Koh is a Professor at the School of Computer Science & Engineering at Seoul National University. Dr. Koh was born in Korea and received his B.S. in Applied Physics from Seoul National University in 1974 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in 1981. He worked for Bell Laboratories from 1981 till 1983. Dr. Koh served as IT Advisor to Prime Minister from 1996-1999.
Dr. Koh is currently serving as the Chairman of Korea OSS (Open Source Software) Forum. Dr. Koh is a member of IEEE, ACM and the National Academy of Engineering of Korea.
 

Young-June Kwon

Young-June Kwon is a Professor of Finance in the School of Business at Kyunghee University, Korea. Dr. Kwon's main research area is financial markets, institution and financial supervision. And recently, he is strongly interested in the development of social enterprises using the power of financial markets. He serves as the Chairman of the Korea Economic Justice Institute, Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice (CCEJ) which was the largest NGO founded in 1989. He serves as an Advisory Member of Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), and also Advisory Member of Supreme Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Korea. He also served as Advisory Member of several Korean Governmental Ministries such as the Ministry of Finance and Economy (MFE), and the Prime Minister's Office. Dr. Kwon grew up in Korea and received his B.A. in Economics from Seoul National University in 1976 and his Ph.D. in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. He has received the Greatest Award of the Korean Capital Market Development, by the Joint Committee of the MFE, Korea Association of Securities’ Dealers, Korea Exchange, and the Seoul Economic Daily Newspaper. And he has been selected as one of the 100 most influential leaders of the 21 Century in Korea by the Hankyoreh Daily newspaper Co., Korea.
 

Chong-Soo Lee

Chong Soo Lee has been the Managing Director of the Social Solidarity Bank since it was founded in 2002. The Social Solidarity Bank provides alternative finance to micro-businesses and social enterprises and contributes to job creation of the working poor.
Chong Soo Lee received his B.A. in Business Administration from Sogang University in 1979 and his Master's Degree in Social Welfare from Yonsei University in 2003. He also holds a Vice President position at the Society on Nonprofit from 2007.
He plans to develop a social investment fund in the private sector.
 

Antony Bugg-Levine

Antony Bugg-Levine is a Managing Director with the Rockefeller Foundation in New York. Among other responsibilities, he leads the Foundation’s impact investing team that works to harness the capital and expertise of investors making "impact investments" that generate both a social and financial return.
Prior to joining Rockefeller, he served as the Country Director of TechnoServe in Nairobi, Kenya where he helped to design and implement business solutions to rural poverty focused on smallholder farmer economic integration and consulting to medium-scale enterprises. In Kenya, he also worked with various capital providers to develop profitable mechanisms to extend lending to rural businesses and smallholder farmers.
Previously he was a consultant with McKinsey, focused in financial services and healthcare, and managed the team that undertook a strategic review for the United Nations’Global Compact and helped to develop frameworks to incorporate social dynamics into corporate strategy. A native of South Africa, he served in the late 1990s as Communications Director of the South African Human Rights Commission and as a Speechwriter and Media Strategist for the African National Congress’s 1999 election campaign. Bugg-Levine graduated cum laude from Yale College and earned an MPA focused on Economic Development from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School.
 

Young-jae Lim

Youngjae Lim is a Senior Research Fellow at KDI, specializing in Competition Policy and Corporate Governance. He is also interested in financial institution and system. His interest in the research field covers Microcredit, which he has conducted study in Bangladesh after he received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. He joined KDI in 1994, and he served as the Head of Corporate Affairs and Competition Division.
 

Hyung-Gu Moon

Hyoung Koo Moon is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Business School as well as the Dean of the Graduate School of Labor Studies, Korea University. He graduated from Seoul National University, and earned his MBA from Yonsei University. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Minnesota. He is serving as President of Korean Association for NPO Studies and as Vice-President for the Korean Academy of Business Ethics. He co-authored, "ISO 9000 Survey '99" (McGraw-Hill, 1999) and "A Study on the Effective Outside Directorship in Korea" (in Korean, 1999). His research interests include knowledge sharing, organizational culture and leadership, trust, business ethics, and corporate philanthropy. Recently, he is developing checklists for effective corporate philanthropy with his colleagues. Also, he advises a number of large Korean companies regarding HR system, business ethics, and other management issues.
 

Yeong-Don Na

Yeongdon Na is a Director for the Social Enterprise Division of the Ministry of Labor, Republic of Korea. His main concern is employment policy for disadvantaged groups in the labor market. He served as a Labor Market Expert at the ILO Regional Office for Asia-Pacific from 2005 to 2008. He received his M.A. in Public Administration from Seoul National University in 1996 and his Ph.D. in Labor Economics from CNAM (CONSERVATOIRE NATIONAL DES ARTS ET METIERS), Paris, in 2003.
 

Sandra Navalli

Sandra Navalli is a Staff Associate with the Social Enterprise Program and the Associate Director of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School. She works with the faculty director of both programs and manages staff and faculty initiatives related to both areas. Specific areas of responsibility and interest include: international development, corporate social responsibility and sustainability, values-based leadership, and social entrepreneurship. Sandra previously worked as a Management Consultant and in the areas of microeconomics policy, regulation and law. Sandra received honors degrees in Law and in Economics from the Australian National University, and an MBA degree from Columbia Business School. She previously served as the President of the New York City Net Impact Professionals Chapter.
 

Gyu-Taeg Oh

Dr. Gyutaeg Oh is a Professor in Finance at Chung-Ang University and the Founder of Korea Fixed Income Research Institute (KFIRI). His research areas include asset pricing theories, fixed income markets, private equity and regional financial architecture. Dr. Oh has been involved in various Asian Development Bank related projects such as drawing a capital market roadmap for Vietnam over the next ten years as the Project Leader in 2002, and developing a regional guarantee and investment mechanism to pursue Asian Bond Market Initiatives (ABMI) for ASEAN+3 countries. He also advises the Ministry of Finance and Economy on various issues related to ABMI, and serves as a Member of the Presidential Advisory Council on National Economy. Dr. Oh received a Bachelor of Economics from Seoul National University in 1981, a Master from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 1983, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1991. Dr. Oh joined the University of Iowa as an Assistant Professor in the Finance Department at the College of Business Administration where he worked from 1991 to 1995. Since 1995, he has been a Professor at Chung-Ang University.
 

Chang-Gyun Park

Chang-Gyun Park is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Chung-Ang University in Korea. He has written various papers and articles on capital market, financial regulation, and household finance. Previously, He has worked as a Research Fellow for Korea Institute of Public Finance and Korea Development Institute before he joined the faculty of Chung-Ang University. He received his B.A. in Economics from Seoul National University in 1990, M.Sc. in Economics from LSE in 1994, and Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University in 2001. He has been involved in a research project to promote microfinance in Korea as a way to reduce poverty and enhance social integration since 2006
 

Hun-Joon Park

Hun-Joon Park is a Professor at Yonsei University School of Business (YSB) and Yonsei Law School (YLS), Seoul, Korea. Professor Park is Director of Yonsei Social Enterprise Center and serves as Executive Director for Social Venture Competition Korea (SVCK), an outreach partner of the Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC). He initiated social enterprise track at YSB. He also served as Director of Research (2001-2002) at the Korea Research Foundation and assisted in the Foundation’s granting activities to the scientific community. He was Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business (2008), Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (2005-2006), Visiting Scholar at Stanford University (1997) and Researcher at INSEAD (1984-1986). His other visiting appointments were at Bowling Green State University (1998-1999) and the Ohio State University (1996 and 2000). Park held administrative positions such as Vice-Dean at YSB and Faculty Director for the Advanced Management Program and has served academic leadership for the Korea Association of Negotiation Studies as President (2003-2005) and the Association for Korean Management Scholars as Co-President (2002-2005).
 

Won-Soon Park

Won Soon Park is currently the Executive Director of the Hope Institute in Korea. He has made his own career as a "Social Designer," a pioneer in creating Social Innovation, such as Social Entrepreneur. He has constantly challenged himself to promote social justice and institutional change. People describe him as a prominent civic leader. He has founded several non-profit organizations: ‘the People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy,’ ‘the Beautiful Foundation’(similar to Oxfam), and a charity shop, ‘the Beautiful Store’ which is recognized as one of the social enterprises in Korea. ‘The Hope Institute’, an independent think-tank, is his latest project. He consistently inspires people to participate in community work and to learn live harmoniously. He encourages people to express their opinions on social issues and to do their part to enhance the quality of living.
 

Seung-Kyu Rhee

Seung-Kyu Rhee is a Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management and the Director of CSR Research Center at KAIST Graduate School of Management. Professor Rhee's main research interest lies in the corporate responses to global economic, social, and environmental challenges along with their evolving supply chain partners. He is an expert of Korean manufacturing industries and one of the pioneering management scholars studying social and environmental issues of business management. He has published in J. of Operations Management, Business Strategy and Environment, Int’l J. of Cleaner Production, Int’l J. of Operations and Production Management, etc. Dr. Rhee has advised many leading Korean companies on their SCM and CSR issues.
 

Han-Kyun Rho

Han-Kyun Rho is an Assistant Professor in the College of Business Administration at Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea. Professor Rho's main research area is ethics education/training and corporate strategy on ethics, social responsibility and sustainability. He worked for the former Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy and the former Korean Independent Commission against Corruption. He taught 'Business Ethics and Sustainability' at Brunel University, London, UK. Professor Rho has been actively involved in various ethics education/training programs and advised many companies, civil society organizations and government bodies on the issues of his specialty. He received his B.A. in economics from Seoul National University in 1988 and M.Phil. in development studies and Ph.D. in management studies from the University of Cambridge in 1998 and 2003, respectively.
 

Keesung Roh

Keesung Roh is a Senior Fellow at Korea Development Institute (KDI), who is on leave of absence to take charge as the President of the Center for Social Service Management, a newly established institution affiliated to the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Family. The Center is to manage and clear payments and transactions by electronic vouchers of social services such as elderly care and assistance service for the disabled. He has done various researches on public finance at KDI since he received a doctoral degree in Economics from the Ohio State University in 1987. Dr. Roh's recent research interest is focused on topics related to social service development.
 

Sang-Dal Shim

Sangdal Shim is a Senior Research Fellow of KDI, specializing in Social Enterprise. Sangdal has personally been involved in a charity shop movement "Lovingline" 2002. He launched the "Join CCC (Compassionate Creative Capitalist)" movement in 2008, which is similar to the "Join Red" movement. Compassionate Creative Capitalist runs a category of social enterprises such as Lovingline, which its main aim is to make profit to be used for others. A fixed proportion of its profit is used on an ongoing basis for a priori determined social purposes, largely for charity. His vision is to create a CCC Network which helps potential CCCs to start new Compassionate Creative Enterprises as well as to convert existing companies to Compassionate Creative Enterprises. Accordingly, he is conducting research on SE's with a view to nurturing CCC's in the Korean society. Formerly, he assumed the Office of Macroeconomics Team as a Head, and Director of Public Investment Management Center at KDI. His past experiences consist of working in the Korean government as Senior Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Economy. He was an Assistant Professor at Hunter College for 3 years after he received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1984.
 

Bruce Usher

Bruce Usher is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School and concurrently a CEO of Eco-Securities Group plc. Eco-Securities is a public company listed in London, and is one of the world’s leading firms in the business of originating, developing and trading carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol. Prior to Eco-Securities, Usher was Co-founder and CEO of Treasury Connect, which provides electronic trading solutions to banks, and was COO of the Williams Capital Group, a boutique institutional investment bank specializing in capital market activities for major corporations and institutional investors. Usher previously worked for Lehman Brothers in New York and Tokyo, and the Chuo Trust Bank in Tokyo. In 2004, Usher developed the Finance & Sustainability course at Columbia, examining the theory and practical application through which financial tools can be used to address sustainability issues.
 

Hee-Ryong Won

Hee-Ryong Won was a member of the 16th and 17th National Assembly of the Republic of Korea. He is now serving his third term as a member of the 18th National Assembly. He ranked first on a Scholastic Aptitude Test for entrance to Seoul National University of Law Department as an honor student. Later, Mr. Won obtained a Master’s Degree in journalism at Han-Yang University. After successfully passing the Korean Bar Exam at the top, he served as a Public Prosecutor and Attorney. He was appointed as a Supreme Representative of the Grand National Party and ran for the 17th presidential nominee. In 2004, he was selected as a Young Global Leader (YGL) from the World Economic Forum, also called the Davos Forum, who is considered to be the sole participant among Korean politicians, keeping up good relationship with distinguished notables around the world. In 2009, after participating this year's forum, he was selected first as ''the Next Generation Political Leader" by 1,500 professionals. He is also taking an active part in the "National Forum on Green Growth" as a delegate.
 

Chang-Jo Yoo

Chang Jo Yoo is the Dean and Professor of the College of Business Administration and Business School at the Dongguk University. Dr. Yoo received his MBA from the University of Oregon and his Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Arizona. Dr. Yoo’s main research area is consumer behavior, marketing communication and marketing strategy. Dr. Yoo also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in these areas and published a number of papers in academic journals.
Dr. Yoo served as President of Korea Advertising Society and Editor-in-Chief of the Korean Journal of Consumer Studies and Journal of Marketing Management. Now, he serves as Vice-president of the Korean Marketing Association and Korean Marketing Management Association. Dr. Yoo also serves as a Consultant Professor of private and public enterprises in Korea.
Dr. Yoo has received many awards on writing best papers. Dr. Yoo has continued to work on researches, teachings and volunteer activities.
 

Young-Sup Yoon

Young Sup Yun is a Professor of Finance and Director of the Institute of Northeast Asia Business and Economics at Korea University. His academic interests include financial markets and institutions, risk management and corporate finance. Outside his academic career, he has been actively involved in social work, having established and overseen the Korea Down Society, a social welfare foundation which provides a variety of educational and vocational training services to mentally-handicapped people. KDS also runs a sheltered workshop which he hopes to develop in the near future into an early form of social enterprise for handicapped people. He also served as a Commissioner of Securities and Futures Commission and President of Korea Securities Association. He received a BA in Economics from Seoul National University, MBA from the University of Michigan and Ph.D. in Finance from the Ohio State University.