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Mr. Choongsoo KIM
Mr. Choongsoo Kim received a B.A. in economics from Seoul National University and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. In 1979, he started his professional career as senior research associate at the Center for Human Resource Research, Ohio State University, U.S.A. He returned to Korea in 1983 and served at the Korea Development Institute (KDI) as senior economist for ten years. His research areas at KDI included macroeconomic policy management, manpower and social welfare policy.
In early 1993, Mr. Kim was named Secretary to the President for economic affairs at the Office of the President. In March 1995, as Korea applied for a membership to the OECD, he was appointed as Minister and Head of the OECD Office at the Korean Embassy in Paris, to be in charge of the accession negotiations with the OECD.
Mr. Kim returned to Seoul in early 1997 and served as Assistant Minister and Special Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister at the Ministry of Finance and Economy. In August 1997, he was elected as President of the Korea Institute of Public Finance. He became Dean of the graduate school for international studies at Kyung Hee University in April 1998. From August of 2002 to August of 2005, he served as President of the Korea Development Institute. During February of 2007 and February of 2008, he served as President of Hallym University. In February of 2008, he was appointed as Senior Secretary to the President for economic affairs at the Office of the President.
Ambassador Choongsoo Kim took up his duties as Permanent Representative of Korea to the OECD on 26 September 2008.
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