Dr. Nam-Kook Kim is a Jean Monnet Chair Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Korea University. He studied at Seoul National University, Korea, and the University of Oxford, England, and received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, USA. His main research interests are the philosophical interpretation of public policy in the areas of citizenship, human rights, and multiculturalism in Europe and Asia. Dr. Kim served as the Editor in Chief for the Korean Political Science Review from 2010 to 2012 and as the president of the Korean Society of Contemporary European Studies in 2017. He was also Directeur d'Etudes Associés at Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, France, in 2012 and Professeur Invite at l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France, in 2013. He was the winner of the Best Article Awards from the Korean Political Science Association in 2011 and the Korean Society of Contemporary European Studies in 2011. In addition, he was listed in the Marquis Who's Who in the World, Volume 31, 32 (2014, 2015). His publications include the articles “Justifying Ground of Multicultural Policy: Universal Human Rights vs. Benefit of Diversity” (2014) and “Democratic Empire of European: A Normative Leader or a Realistic Compromiser?” (2011), and the books Multicultural Challenges and Sustainable Democracy in Europe and East Asia (Palgrave, 2014) and Multicultural Challenges and Redefining Identity in East Asia (Ashgate, 2014).