Wootae Lee is a director of the Humanitarian and Cooperation Research Division at the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU). He simultaneously serves as a member of the board of Unification Education, Ministry of Unification. He served as an advisor to the Center for North Korea Human Rights Records, Ministry of Unification. His research interests include inter-Korean exchange and cooperation and foreign policy analysis. He earned his B.A. from Inha University, his M.A. from New York University, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Georgia. Before joining the Korea Institute for National Unification(KINU, he served as a research professor at the Center for International Studies at Inha University, South Korea.