Speaker
YOON Suk Heun
Affliation
Financial Supervisory Service
Title
Former Governor
Session

Biography

Suk Heun Yoon is a Former Governor of the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), in Korea. Throughout his tenure, he emphasized the importance of consumer protection as well as supervisory independence. Prior to this, he taught finance at Hallym University, Soongsil University, and Seoul National University, all in Korea. Before that, he had worked for the Korea Institute of Finance as a senior research fellow. He also taught at McGill University, Canada after he received a Ph.D. degree in Finance from Northwestern University and an MBA from Santa Clara University both in the USA. Dr. Yoon’s research interests lie in the areas of financial institutions, commercial banking, financial regulation, and supervisory structure. He has published numerous articles both in international and domestic journals such as the Journal of Banking and Finance (JBF), the Journal of Risk and Insurance, and the Journal of Money and Finance (in Korean). He is a recipient of the Iddo-Sarnat Best Paper Award jointly from the JBF and European Finance Association and the Best Paper Award two times from the Korean Finance Association (KFA). He used to serve as President of the KFA and President of the Korea Money and Finance Association.