So Young Kim

Prof. So Young Kim is the Director of the Korea Policy Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (KPC4IR) and the Project Coordinator of the Establishment of Kenya KAIST Project at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in South Korea. As the former head of the KAIST Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, Prof. Kim led or advised large-scale science and technology (S&T) policy programs on research and development (R&D) funding, S&T workforce policy, science-based official development assistance (ODA), and the governance of emerging technologies.
Prof. Kim is also currently serving as the Director of the Policy Institute of Korea Women’s Federation of S&T Associations, and the Co-Representative of the Citizen Coalition for Scientific Society, the largest citizen group for S&T promotion in South Korea. As a public intellectual, she has served numerous committees of government ministries including the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family. She also served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Councils as well as on the Advisory Panel of the Institute for Public Understanding of Risk of the National University of Singapore.