Dong-Hwi Lee is the Vice Chairman of the Korean Council on Foreign Relations, and a former professor at KNDA-IFANS, a branch of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea. He was dean of research at the IFANS with a deputy ministerial rank from 2000 to 2004. He was also a senior associate to the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, from 2009-2011, and a senior visiting scholar in 2009 with the G8 and G20 Research Groups of the Munk School of Global Affairs, Univ. of Toronto, Canada. His research interests include the political economy of East Asia, with special focus on North Korea and China, global governance, regional cooperation, and analysis of international negotiation. He has written numerous articles on various topics, such as “Global Governance as a Way of Balancing Sovereignty with Global Responsibility”(2012), “Ensuring Security in the Middle East, Northeast Asia and Worldwide”(2012), and “Global Security and the Korean Peninsula”(2011). He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University and a B.A. in economics from Seoul National University.