Taekyoon Kim is associate dean for international affairs and associate professor of international development at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University. He is currently the executive secretary of the Korea Association of International Studies and also a former board member of the Korean Association for International Development and Cooperation, the Korean Sociological Association, the Korea Association for Policy Studies, and the Critical Sociological Association. In the public sector, he currently serves as a policy advisor for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as an ODA expert for Korea International Cooperation Agency, and as a resource person for UN Office for Sustainable Development, UNESCO and UNDP Seoul Policy Center; in the academic field, he has been participating in varieties of academic institutes such as UNRISD as a collaborating researcher, Goethe University's AFRASO as a co-researcher, Tuebingen University's Global South Project as a co-organizer, and RC18 of International Political Science Association as one of board members; and in the civic sector, he is now the chairperson of international affairs at the Citizens' Coalition for Economic Justice. His primary academic research areas include international development, global governance, and international political sociology. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, such as International Sociology, Journal of Democracy, Global Governance, and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, among others. He received a D.Phil from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, was a visiting professor at the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne), and an assistant professor at Waseda University and Ewha Womans University.