Youngwan Kim, Ph.D. is a Professor at the Department of Political Science, Sogang University. Before taking his current position, he worked at the Division of Language and Diplomacy, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies from March 2015 to August 2021. He also worked as a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Iowa State University for two years and then as a research professor at Korea University. He completed his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Iowa in 2011, with his B.A. in political science and international relations from Yonsei University and M.A. in international development from the University of California San Diego. His research interests include foreign aid, NGOs, international development cooperation, international organizations, and international law. He has work experience in the field of international development cooperation with several international organizations such as UNICEF, International Republican Institute, Humanasia and so on. In addition, he conducted a variety of research and field projects with KOICA, MOFA, and MOU. With co-authored book, International Organizations: Politics of Global Governance, his representative works have been published in several journals like World Development, Development and Change, Foreign Policy Analysis, Disasters, etc.