Dr. Choi has been the President of the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS) since September 2020. He is also a professor and the former Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha Womans University. As a renowned scholar in the field of international trade and US-China relations, he took various leadership roles, including President of the Korea Economic Research Institute (2011-2014), a think tank representing the Korean business sector. He served as the President of the Korea International Economic Association, the President of the Korea Association of Negotiation Studies, and the President of the Korean Association of Trade and Industry Studies. Prior to joining academia, he was the Korean chief negotiator for the WTO basic telecom negotiations (1994-1997), and trade negotiator for service agreement and the telecom annex at the Uruguay Round, the Korea-US telecom agreement, and the Korea-EU telecom agreement. He led the Korean initiative of the Asia-Pacific Information Infrastructure (APII) at the 1995 APEC Summit. His book includes the US-China Competition: Who Will Rule the World? (2019), Northeast Asia in 2030: Forging Ahead or Drifting Away (2018), China, New Paradigm (2016), The KORUS FTA: Against the All Odds (2006), and The Success and Failure of Trade Negotiations of Korea (2004). He received a B.A. from Seoul National University and a Ph.D. in economics from Yale.