Jinwook Choi’s major research fields are North Korea, Korean Unification, and Northeast Asian security. Dr. Choi was the 14th President of the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU), from March 2014 to March 2017, which he joined as a research fellow in 1993. In 2017, when he left KINU, he took a position as a visiting research fellow at Ritsumeikan University and then taught as a visiting professor in 2018. He opened the Center for East Asian Peace and Cooperation and has been a chair professor there. He also opened the Center for Strategic and Cultural Studies in Seoul in 2019, when he came back to Korea. He has been active in policy advice for the ROK government as well as in academic research. He was the 13th President of the Korea Association for North Korean Studies (KANKS) in 2013 and served as a member of various advisory committees of the ROK government including the President, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ministry of Unification. He is the author of two books and more than 100 research papers (research monographs, book chapters, and journal articles), including “How to Stop North Korea's Nuclear Ambition," Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies." vol. 7, 2018. “China’s Security Dynamism and the Korean Unification” in Lowell Dittmer and Maochun Yu, Handbook on China, Routledge (2015). Dr. Choi received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Cincinnati in 1992.