Yul Sohn is the President of the East Asia Institute (EAI) and Professor of the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) and Underwood International College at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Sohn served as President of the Korean Association of International Studies (KAIS) in 2019. He also served as Dean of the GSIS (2012-2016) and President of the Association for Contemporary Japanese Studies (2012). Before joining the faculty at Yonsei, Sohn taught at Chung-Ang University and was a visiting scholar at institutions in the University of Tokyo, Waseda University, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the University of California, Berkeley. Sohn has served as a policy advisor on a number of government advisory committees including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Trade, the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, the Northeast Asian History Foundation, and the Korea Foundation.
Sohn has written extensively on Japanese and East Asian political economy, East Asian international relations, and public diplomacy. His most recent publications include Japan and Asia's Contested Order (2019, with T. J. Pempel) and Understanding Public Diplomacy in East Asia (2016, with Jan Melissen) both from Palgrave MacMillan, and “South Korea under US-China Rivalry: the Dynamics of the Economic-Security Nexus in the Trade Policymaking,” The Pacific Review (2019), 32, 6. Sohn received his Ph. D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, Illinois, USA.