Shin-wha LEE is a Professor of the Department of Political Science and International Relations & Director of the Peace and Democracy Institute(PDI), Korea University; President of the Korea Academic Council on the UN System; Member of the Korean Committee on Public Diplomacy; Advisor of the Korean Army Development; and Member of Trilateral Commission. Her previous positions include Post-doc fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs; Special advisor to UNSG Kofi Annan’s Rwandan Independent Inquiry; Chair's advisor of East Asian Vision Group; Full-time visiting lecture professor at Columbia University; Board member and Executive committee member of Academic Council on the UN Studies(ACUNS); International board member of GR:EEN, Europe; Vice President for international affairs at Korea University; Visiting scholar at MIT’s Center for International Studies(CIS); and UN Secretary General's Advisory Group Member of Peacebuilding Fund(PBF)(2014-17). She received her Ph.D from the University of Maryland at College Park(1994). Her numerous publications, including Human Security and Cross-Border Cooperation in East Asia (2019), “Is the Liberal International Order at Risk?”(2019), and “Foreign Policy Dilemma in South Korean Democracy”(2021).