Ambassador KIM Chang-beom is a well-experienced diplomat. He is currently working as co-founder and advisor at the newly established Center for Strategic and Cultural Studies (CSCS), in Korea. He has completed his diplomatic career of 39 years in September 2020. He has served as Korean Ambassador to Indonesia from January, 2018 through July 2020. He also worked in Brussels as the Korean Ambassador to the European and Belgium from 2012 through 2015. Amb. KIM has special ties and experiences with the European, ASEAN, and Indonesia, in particular. During his career, he made significant contributions to the promotion of Korea’s partnership with the EU and ASEAN through summit meeting preparations and substantial progress in trade, investment, and people–to–people exchanges. He has worked together with the Indonesian Government in reaching a final conclusion of the Indonesia – Korea Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IK CEPA) in November 2019. As a career foreign service officer, he has served five overseas posts and worked in various positions within the Korean Government ever since he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in December 1981. He earned a Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, USA (1986) and is a distinguished graduate of Seoul National University (B.A., 1982). Born in 1960, in Seoul, Korea, he has a wife and two sons.