Speaker
Rudiger FRANK
Affliation
University of Vienna
Title
Professor of East Asian Economy and Society
Session

Biography

RĂ¼diger Frank is an Economist with a focus on Korea. He is currently a Professor of East Asian Economy and Society at the University of Vienna and has been heading the Department of East Asian Studies there since 2012. He has been involved in the work of the World Economic Forum on the Korean peninsula since 2011. Having spent the first two decades of his life in East Germany and the Soviet, and the next three decades in Western Europe, the US, and East Asia, he has a deep interest in the political economy of state socialism and its transformation. He has been researching North Korea since 1991 when he studied for one semester as a language student in Pyongyang.