Biography
Ambassador Park Soo-gil, before he was elected President of WFUNA at the 39th Plenary Assembly in August 2009, served as the Republic of Korea’s Ambassador in the Kingdom of Morocco, Canada, to the European Office of the United Nations in Geneva and the UN in New York, from 1984 to 1998.
At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, where he served from 1963 to 1998, Mr. Park held positions such as Director-General of Treaty Affairs, Deputy Minister for Political Affairs, and Chancellor of the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security.
Mr. Park also served as a Sub-commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights member, an affiliate body of the former Commission on Human Rights from 1999 to 2003. He teaches at the Graduate School of International Studies, Korea University, as a distinguished professor of international organizations and the United Nations.
Mr. Park graduated from Korea University College of Law in 1959 and obtained an MIA degree from the School of International Affairs and Public Administration at Columbia University in 1971.
At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, where he served from 1963 to 1998, Mr. Park held positions such as Director-General of Treaty Affairs, Deputy Minister for Political Affairs, and Chancellor of the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security.
Mr. Park also served as a Sub-commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights member, an affiliate body of the former Commission on Human Rights from 1999 to 2003. He teaches at the Graduate School of International Studies, Korea University, as a distinguished professor of international organizations and the United Nations.
Mr. Park graduated from Korea University College of Law in 1959 and obtained an MIA degree from the School of International Affairs and Public Administration at Columbia University in 1971.
