Speaker
Kim JOOJIN
Affliation
Solutions for Our Climate (SFOC)
Title
Managing Director
Session

Biography

Joojin Kim is the Managing Director and Founder of Solutions for Our Climate (SFOC), a Seoul-based climate advocacy group focusing on preventing new coal power plants both within Korea and internationally, phasing out coal power within Korea, and promoting renewable energy. Joojin has over ten years of experience with the international climate change regime, including experience serving as a member of the delegation of the Republic of Korea to the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, held in Copenhagen. More recently, he served as a member of the Working Group for Korea’s Third Energy Framework Plan and as a member of the Advisory Panel of the National Council on Climate and Air Quality of Korea led by Ban Ki-Moon. He also briefly worked for the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Before founding SFOC, he was an attorney at Kim & Chang, Korea’s largest law firm. Joojin received his LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center and master’s degree and bachelor’s degree from Seoul National University.