people

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Steve Park

General Chair

Chairman of Youth and Future Committee, K-Policy Platform

Author, The Great Illusion,

The Right Future

Fmr. Public Policy Director, Meta​

Jeffrey Jones

Chair

Chairman, Ronald McDonald House Charities Korea
Chairman, Partners for The Future Foundation​
Foreign Attorney, Kim and Chang

Yasushi Kobori

Chair
Public Policy Director, SmartNews
Fmr. Head of Japan Public Policy, Meta
Fmr. Director of Government and Public Business, Fujitsu

Jason Chua

Director of Programs

Lecturer,

Weill Cornell Medicine School

Fellow, Leonine Forum

Fmr. Director, KORE Consulting

Rick Aseltine

Director of Operations
Development Director, Evergreen Fund
Fmr. COO, ddbliss Group
Fmr. Sales Director, RailComm

Seong-hwan Jeon

Director
Fmr. Head of Public Policy and Business Development for Korea, Japan and Emerging Markets, Tesla
Fmr. Head of Automotive Industry, European Chamber of Commerce in Korea (ECCK)

Chris Kim

Director
Head of Vertical Industries in Korea, Meta
Fmr. Global Client Partner, Meta
Fmr. Manager, Cheil Worldwide, Samsung Group

Byung-joo Kim

Director

Head of Government Relations

for the Asia-Pacific, Matchgroup

Vice-Chairman, AI Human Society

Fmr. Policy Director,

Macoll Consulting Group

Won-seok Lee

Director

Attorney, Shin & Kim LLC

Jun-bum Jo

Researcher
PhD Candidate, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) College of Business
ADVISORY BOARD

Allison Hooker

Senior Advisor

Nominee to be Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

Fmr. Senior Director of Asia, White House National Security Council (NSC)

Fmr. Senior Director of the Korean Peninsula, White House NSC

Anthony Ruggiero

Senior Advisor
Fmr. Senior Director of Counterproliferation and Biodefense, White House NSC
Fmr. Director of North Korea, White House NSC

Amb. Kurt Tong

Senior Advisor
Managing Partner, The Asia Group
Fmr. US Consul General and Chief of Mission in Hong Kong and Macau

Benjamin Ginsberg

Senior Advisor

David Bernstein Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University 

Chair, Johns Hopkins Center for Advanced Governmental Studies

Author, The Dark Side of Politics:

Essays on the Unpleasant Realities of Political Life​

Amb. Joseph Yun

Senior Advisor Emeritus

US Chargé d'Affaires ad interim

to the Republic of Korea

Fmr. US Special Representative

for North Korea Policy

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