LEE, SHIN WHA is a Professor of the Department of Political Science and International Relations; Ambassador-at-large on North Korean Human Rights and International Cooperation; President of the Korean Academic Council on the United Nations System; Chair of the Evaluation Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and Member of Trilateral Commission. Her previous positions include Post-doc fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs; Special advisor to UNSG Kofi Annan’s Rwandan Independent Inquiry; Chair's advisor of East Asian Vision Group, Full-time visiting professor at Columbia University, International board member of GR:EEN, Europe, Vice President for international affairs at Korea University; Chair of Research Committee of Seoul Forum for International Affairs; Visiting scholar at MIT’s Center for International Studies, UN Secretary General's Advisory Group Member of Peacebuilding Fund, Member of Committee on Public Diplomacy, Republic of Korea; Advisor of Korean Army Development; and Member of Ministry of Defense Requirement Verification Committee. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland at College Park. Her numerous publications, including Human Security and Cross-Border Cooperation in East Asia (Palgrave McMillan 2019), “Foreign Policy Dilemma in South Korean Democracy” (Routledge 2021), and UN, Indo-Pacfic and Korean Peninsula (Routledge 2022/23), cover East Asian multilateral security and foreign policies, UN security roles, and human security.