Il Sakong Dr. Sakong is currently Chairman and CEO of the Institute for Global Economics, a private non-profit research institute based in Seoul. Dr. SaKong attended Seoul National University and took both his Master’s and Ph.D. at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). From 1969 to 1973, Dr. SaKong was Professor of Economics and Finance at New York University (NYU) and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Sheffield, UK. Dr. SaKong served in the Government of the Republic of Korea as Minister of Finance (1987-88) and Chief Economic Secretary to the President (1983-87). He also was Senior Counsellor to the Minister of Economic Planning (1982), and Senior Economist of the Presidential Council on Economic and Scientific Affairs (1979-80). Before joining the Korean Government, Dr. SaKong held the positions of Senior Fellow, Research Director and then Vice President of the Korea Development Institute (KDI) (1973-1982). Since 1989, he has been Special Consultant to the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C. Dr. SaKong has written/edited numerous books and articles on the Korean economy, on economic development, international finance and trade policy issues. | |||
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