Speaker
LEE Anselmo
Affliation
Global Academy for Future Civilizations (GAFC), Kyunghee University
Title
Adjunct Professor
Session

Biography

Anselmo LEE is currently Adjunct Professor at the Global Academy for Future Civilizations (GAFC), Kyunghee University in South Korea. He has been involved in the civil society movement in Korea and internationally on issues related to human rights, democracy, peace, ODA as well as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for more than 30 years. Since 2008, he has engaged in research and teaching about human rights and SDGs at several universities in Korea. He is currently serving the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) as a non-standing board member and the Asia Civil Society Partnership for Sustainable Development (APSD) as regional coordinator. He had been working for the Korea Human Rights Foundation as Executive Director from 2010 to 2018 after serving the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) as Director General in charge of Human Rights Policy and Education (2008-2010). Previously he was working for the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) as Executive Director (2005 – 2008) based in Bangkok."