Younkyoo Kim is a Professor in the School of International Studies, at Hanyang University. He is also the Director of the Center for Energy Governance & Security at Hanyang University. His main research area is international energy security. Recently, he published <Poor America, Rich China: US-China Rare Earth Element Competition and 21st Century Economy Security >, a book dealing with global supply chain issues and the security of rare earth minerals. From August 2021 to April 2022, he worked for the enactment of the <Special Act on Resource Security> as the civilian chairman of the Resource Security Diagnosis Committee of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. From March 2021 to the present, he has also been writing a column for the Korean Daily <The Political Economy of Energy>.