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Tai Hwan Lee

Senior Research Fellow
The Sejong Institute, Korea

Tai Hwan Lee: thlee@sejong.org
Senior Research Fellow, The Sejong Institute, Korea

Dr. Tai Hwan Lee is a senior research fellow and former director of foreign policy and security studies program at the Sejong Institute, which is one of the largest think-tanks of its kind in Korea. The Sejong Institute also offers a one-year study program for government officials. Prior to the current position, he worked as a policy analyst in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a Senior Research Fellow in the Asiatic Research Center at Korea University. He was also a member of Policy Advisory Committee of Ministry of Defense in Korea.

Dr. Lee has extensive experiences in China. He was a visiting fellow at the Foreign Affairs College under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at Beijing University, and at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations in China. He was the first president of the Korean Association for China Studies. He is a board member of the Korean Association of International Studies and the Korean Association of Political Science. Dr. Lee has worked for the USC Alumni Association in Korea (Seoul USC Alumni Club) as secretary general since 2000.

Dr. Lee graduated from the Department of International Relations at Seoul National University (1977). He received the degree of Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (M.A.L.D.) from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Ph.D. in political Science from the University of Southern California (class of ?83).

He has edited or co-edited several books including North Korea and Northeast Asia, (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., 2002)