Dr. LEE Hochul is a Professor of China and International Studies at the Department of Political Science, Incheon National University, and Director of the Institute of China Studies (ICS). Dr. Lee currently serves the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROK, as Committee Chair of Policy Planning, and the Korea Foundation as Chairman of the Advisory and Managerial Committee. Dr. Lee served as President of the Korean Association of International Studies (KAIS) and the Presidential Committee on Northeast Asian Cooperation Initiative as an Advisor on Foreign and National Security Affairs.
Dr. Lee has published many research on China and International Studies, including “The Denuclearization and Peace Process on the Korean Peninsula”(2019), “South Korea-China Relations as Strategic Partnership: Its Scope and Limit”(2018), “Power Politics Behind the Transforming Geopolitics in East Asia”(2017), “Rising China and the Evolution of China-North Korea Relations” (2014), and “China in North Korean Nuclear Crises: 'Interest' and 'Identity' in Foreign Behavior”(2013). Dr. Lee earned his B.A. from Seoul National University (1981) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science at Rutgers University (1993) in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. He also conducted research at Peking University and Columbia University. He can be reached via hochul82@gmail.com .