
Speaker
LEE Seungjoo
- Affliation
- Chung-Ang University
- Title
- Professor
Biography
LEE Seungjoo is Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Chung-Ang University (Seoul, Korea), Chair of the Trade, Technology, and Transformation Research Center at the East Asia Institute (EAI), Senior Research Affiliate at the Berkeley APEC Study Center (BASC) at the University of California at Berkeley, and Visiting Fellow at the Center for Emerging Technology and Security (CETaS) at the Alan Turing Institute. He is currently a member of the Quantum Strategy Committee (chaired by the Prime Minister), a member of the Advisory Committee on Economic Security and Foreign Affairs (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and Chief of Review Board at the National Research Foundation (Ministry of Education). Previously Seungjoo was an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore. His publications have appeared in various journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Chinese Political Science, The Pacific Review, Asian Survey, Business and Politics, Natural Hazards Review, Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Korean Journal of International Studies, Korean Political Science Review and Global Asia. His current research focuses on the economy-security nexus, economic statecraft, the U.S.-China technology competition, and global digital governance. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley.