Lee International

Chulsu KIM

Senior Advisor

Chulsu Kim is a senior advisor at Lee International IP & Law in Seoul and the Chairman of Institute for Trade and Investment (ITI), a research and consulting organization affiliated with Lee International IP & Law.

Before joining the firm, Dr. Kim served with the Korean government, World Trade Organization and Sejong University in Seoul, where he taught trade policy and served as its president from 2002 to 2006. From 1995 to 1999, he served as Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and before that, was the minister of Trade, Industry and Energy from 1993 to 1994. As Deputy Minister for Trade from 1984 to 1990, Dr. Kim was Korea's chief trade negotiator. From 1987 to 1990, he chaired the Uruguay Round Negotiating Group on MTN Agreements in his personal capacity. In 1990, he became the Commissioner of the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO). In 1991, he was appointed as President of Korea Trade and Investment Promotion Corporation (KOTRA), a trade and investment promotion agency of the Korean government.

Dr. Kim is a graduate of Tufts University (1964) and the University of Massachusetts where he earned master's and doctorate degrees in political science. Dr. Kim received honorary doctorates in law from the University of Massachusetts (1997) and Franklin Pierce Law Center (2006). Since 2015, he sits on the board of S-oil. He is also the author of Trade Winds of Change: Korea in World Trade (2014).

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