Heungkyu Kim

Heungkyu Kim is a visiting researcher at Georgetown University until August, 2018. He previously served as Director of the China Policy Institute and a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Ajou University in South Korea. He received his B.A. and M.A. in International Relations at Seoul National University and Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Michigan. His current assignments include a board membership on the National Security Council in the Blue House, and seats on the Presidential Commission on Policy Planing and the Presidential Unification Advisory Council. Kim has written more than 300 articles, books, and policy papers regarding Chinese politics and foreign policy, and security issues in Northeast Asia. In 2014, he won the NEAR Foundation Academic prize of the year in the area of Foreign Policy and Security.