Ms. Enna Park, Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Beijing has been a career diplomat since 1985. Her immediate previous position was Director General for Development Cooperation at the Headquarters of the Foreign Ministry from 2011 to 2013. She was responsible for Korean ODA policy formulation and implementation bilaterally and multilaterally. She was the mastermind of the Busan Global Partnership for Development Cooperation, which was launched at the Aid Effectiveness High-level Forum in 2011. In recognition of this achievement, she received the Outstanding Diplomat of the Year Award.
Before that, she served as Minister Counselor at the Korean Mission to the UN from 2007 to 2010. Her contribution to the advancement of women's status through diplomatic efforts in the Commission on the Status of Women and UNIFEM (UN Women) was appreciated by being awarded the Order of Service Merit of the Korean Government. Her previous positions include foreign services in New Delhi, New York, and Beijing. She has also served in the Presidential Office under President Kim Dae-Jung.
Ms. Park holds a BA in History from Yonsei University in Seoul, Republic of Korea, and an MA in International Affairs from Columbia University. She was a visiting scholar at Columbia from 2010 to 2011.