YEOM Jae-ho

President Yeom earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at Stanford University for his research on Japanese industrial policy for high technology. He has taught public administration at Korea University since 1990. He has conducted research as a visiting researcher and foreign research professor at Hitotsubashi University & University of Tsukuba in Japan, Renmin University & Peking University in China, Griffith University in Australia, and a Chevening Fellow at the University of Brighton in UK.
President Yeom has served many government positions including as a Chairperson of the Policy Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as a member of the Presidential Commission of Science of Technology Policy, as a Chairperson of the Steering Committee of Korea Post, and as a Chairperson of Innovation and Development Committee of the Board of Audit and Inspection in Korea. He was the President of the Korean Association of Policy Studies in 2007 and the President of the Korean Association for Contemporary Japanese Studies in 2008. Until 2019, he has worked for Universitas 21 as an Executive Committee member, for the Asia Pacific Rim Universities as a Steering Committee member, and for the Future Consensus Institute as a Senior Fellow.
He has served as the 19th President of Korea University from 2015 to 2019. As an emeritus professor of public administration at Korea University, he has served as Chairperson of the Board of Seoul Peace Prize Culture Foundation from 2020 to March 2026. He served as Chairperson of the Board of SK Inc. from 2019 to March 2025
He served as Vice-Chair of the Presidential Committee on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2024. He also writes a regular column for the Joong-Ang Daily Newspaper.