Biography
Jie-ae Sohn is currently an invited professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha Womans University, focusing on international communications. Jie-ae spent 15 years from 1995 to 2010 as CNN’s bureau chief and correspondent based in Seoul, providing continuous coverage of both South and North Korea. She then joined the South Korean government, serving as the spokesperson of the Presidential Committee for the Seoul G20 Summit in 2010 and then as the Presidential Secretary of the Office of Overseas Public Relations at the executive office of South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak. She was also the President/CEO of the Korea International Broadcasting Foundation, Korea’s only English-language broadcasting station, Arirang TV and Radio, becoming the first woman to run a major TV station in Korea. Ms. Sohn is married with three daughters.