Wongi Choe is a Professor and Head of Center for ASEAN–India Studies at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA). He holds B.A. and M.A. in International Relations from Seoul National University in Korea and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Washington at Seattle in the United States. Since 2006 he has been conducting policy-oriented research at KNDA on such topics as Korea’s FTA policy, regional integration and regional architecture building in East Asia, G20 and global governance, and Korea’s approach toward UN climate change negotiation, etc. He was an advisory member of ROK government delegation at the UNFCCC meetings and participated in the multilateral climate change negotiations for about a decade from 2010 to 2019. He is currently a member of the advisory group at the Presidential Committee on New Southern Policy in Korea. As head of Center for ASEAN–India Studies at KNDA, he engages in policy research on such topics as New Southern Policy, which is Korea’s new foreign policy initiative toward Southeast Asia and beyond, regional cooperation and integration in East Asia, and geo-political dynamics and regional architecture in the Indo-Pacific. His recent writings include “Why South Korea Wants to Tie in with ASEAN (2019),” “New Southern Policy and US Indo-Pacific Strategy: Directions for US-ROK Cooperation (2019),” “Recent Developments in Indian Foreign Policy and Implications for Korea (2019),” and “Korea’s New Southern Policy: Achievements and Challenges (2019),” etc.