Kisuk Cho is a professor of Political Science at the Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University. She was educated at Ewha and Indiana University. She established the Public Diplomacy Center (PDC), the first research institute among Korean universities in the field. The PDC co-hosted symposiums and conferences with Wilson Center, UN Department of Public Information, and other renowned institutes. The PDC has co-hosted “Korean-German Forum” with Korea Foundation for five years between 2012-2016 and “Korean-German Junior Forum” every year since it was launched in 2012. The PDC gave birth to the Korean Association for Public Diplomacy and she served the Association as the founding president during 2020-2021. Her recent publication includes books titled Politics of Populism, An Assessment Model for Korean Style Public Diplomacy, and A forecasting Model for Korean Elections, and articles titled, “the rise and decline of South Korean anti-American Sentiment,” and “A theoretical model for analyzing effective public diplomacy”.