Yul Sohn is the President of the East Asia Institute (EAI) and Professor of the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He is also President of the Korean Association of International Studies (KAIS) for the 2019 term. He served as Dean of the GSIS (2012-2016) and President of the Association for Contemporary Japanese Studies (2012). Before joining the faculty at Yonsei, Sohn taught at Chung-Ang University and was a visiting scholar at institutions in the University of Tokyo, Waseda University, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the University of California, Berkeley. Sohn serves as a policy advisor Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Trade, and the Korean Diplomatic Academy. Sohn has written extensively on Japanese and East Asian political economy, East Asian international relations, and public diplomacy. His most recent publications include Japan and Asia's Contested Order (2018, with T. J. Pempel) and Understanding Public Diplomacy in East Asia (2016, with Jan Melissen) both from Palgrave MacMillan. Sohn received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, Illinois, USA.