Speaker
KWON Huck-Ju
Affliation
Korea Association of International Development and Cooperation
Title
President
Session

Biography

Huck-ju Kwon is the President of the Korean Association of International Development and Cooperation and a Professor at the Graduate School of Public Administration, and the Asia Development Institute, at Seoul National University. His research interest is in global social policy, international development cooperation, and political theory of social policy. He was Co-editor of Global Social Policy from 2016-2019. His publications include ‘A Normative Reflection on Korean ODA Policy: Self-Regards, Duty, and Obligation (Korean Social Science Journal, 2019), ‘Bring back institution capability in fragile situations: Implications for global social policy’ (Global Social Policy, 2018), ‘Poverty Reduction and Good Governance’ (Development and Change 2014), Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia (Palgrave, 2005), and ‘Implications of the Sustainable Development Goals for global social policy’ (Global Social Policy 2017).