Speaker
HAN Kyung Koo
Affliation
Secretary-General of Korean National Commission for UNESCO
Session

Biography

Dr. Kyung-Koo Han is the Secretary-General of the Korean National Commission for UNESCO. As a cultural anthropologist trained at Seoul National University (M.A.) and Harvard University (Ph.D.), Dr. Han taught anthropology at Kangwon National University, and helped develop the Division of International Studies at Kookmin University as its dean. In 2009, he joined the newly founded College of Liberal Studies of Seoul National University and served as its dean until 2020. Dr. Han has served as member of the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, the Policy Planning Committee of the Korea Federation for the Environmental Movement, and the Presidential Commission for Sustainable Development. He has also served on the editorial boards of the Korea Journal, Sahoewa yeoksa (Society and History), and Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, and was Editor of Hanguk munhwa inryuhak (Korean Cultural Anthropology) and of the Korean Social Science Journal. Dr. Han was President of the Korean International Migration Studies Association, the Korean Society for Education for International Understanding, and the Korean Society for the Study of Overseas Koreans, as well as Vice President of the Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology, and the Korean Society for Environmental Sociology.