Insu Baek is the Research Director at the AI-Future Strategy Center, National Information Society Agency (NIA) in South Korea. Baek is charged with the creation, refinement, and evaluation of mid- and long-term master plans for ICT development in the country, building ICT policies and strategies for the South Korean government. He also develops and implements ICT projects for the government, partnering with diverse government agencies at the national level to innovate public services by adopting cutting-edge technologies in the public sector. Before joining NIA in 2005, Baek served as Manager of Planning in the Department of Management at Samsung SDI Co. for three years. He was a visiting researcher at Arizona State University from 2015-16 and at the University of California−Berkley from 2011-12. Baek earned his BA in Business Administration from Sungkyunkwan University and a Master’s Degree in Management Engineering from Korea University in South Korea