SPEAKERS

Sung-Hee Jwa
President
The Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI)

Dr. Sung-Hee Jwa is currently president of the Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI). He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. After spending two years as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, he joined the Korea Development Institute in 1985, where he served as senior (research) fellow until 1997. He also served as a member of the Presidential Commission on Policy Planning from 1994 to 1997, the Policy Advisory Committee at the Ministry of National Unification from 1997 to June 2003, and the Presidential Commission on Government Reform from 2000 to February 2003. Currently, he is a member the Korea Tele-Communication Commission at the Ministry of Information and Communication and the Planning and Evaluation Committee at the Korea Council of Economic and Social Research Institute, as well as being group representative of the Jeju International Free City Forum.

Dr. Jwa has written extensively on various issues related to the Korean economy, including two English books; "A New Paradigm for Korea's Economic Development: From Government Control to Market Economy", Palgrave, London (2001); "The Evolution of Large Corporations in Korea: A New Institutional Economics Perspective of the Chaebol", Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., London (2002), and several articles such as "Why Firms and Markets in Economics?", Seoul Journal of Economics, Vol. 15, No. 2, Summer 2002; "In Search of 'Global Standards': The Fallacy of Korea's Corporate Policy", Harvard Asia Quarterly, Vol. 7, No.2, Spring 2003.