Biography
Jae-Gu Kim is a member of the 20th Presidential Transition Committee and he is a former President of the Korea Social Enterprise Promotion Agency. He was granted all his degrees, from a bachelor’s to a Ph.D. in Business Administration at Seoul National University. After that, he built his research career at the Korea Labor Institute and Stanford University. He has been a professor of Business Administration at Myongji University(Seoul) for over 20 years. His research focuses on organizational theory, strategic management, social venture, entrepreneurship, and government reinvention. His academic zeal toward these topics contributed to his admission to several professional organizations; he was a member of committees of the Korean Presidential Office and a board member of the Social Enterprise World Forum. He is the chairman-elect of the Korea Academic Society of Business Administration and also the chairman of the Korea Academy of Management in 2022.