Dr. Seung Jick Yoo is a Professor in the department of Convergence of Climate and Environmental Studies, Sookmyung Women’s University. He was the President of Greenhouse Gas Inventory & Research Center of Korea (GIR), a government organization in the Ministry of Environment since 2010. GIR was established to set and monitor the implementation of the national GHGs reduction target by 2020 in 2009, in which the national GHGs reduction target was first announced in COP 15. He has been working as a Senior Economist at the Presidential Committee on Green Growth in 2009 and had also been on Presidential Committee of Northeast Asia Initiative during 2005~2006. He was the Director of the Climate Change Policy Division in 2007~2008 and the Managing Director of Center for Energy Research, Northeast Asia(CERNA) of Korea Energy Economics Institute during 2004~2005. He got Ph.D in Environmental and Resource Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995. His works includes issues on the Energy and Environmental Issues including Global Climate Change Issues including setting and implementing the mid- and long- term GHGs targets, Energy Conservation Policies and Trade of Energy Products in the Northeast Asia among others.

현재 숙명여자대학교 기후환경융합학과에 교수로 재직하고 있으며 기후변화, 환경 경제학, 배출권거래제 등을 강의하고 있다. 또한 2018년 이후 녹색성장위원회 민간위원으로서 국가 기후변화 에너지 정책에 대한 자문을 행하고 있다. 2010년부터 2015년까지 환경부 온실가스종합정보센터장으로 근무하면서 우리나라 국가온실가스 감축목표의 설정, 배출권거래제 도입과 이행에 직접적으로 관여하였다. 1999년부터 에너지경제연구원에서 근무하면서 에너지 절약, 동북아에너지협력 등에 대한 연구도 수행하였다. 1995년 미국 University of California, Berkeley에서 환경경제학으로 박사학위를 취득하였다.