At KDI School, Professor Byoung-Joo Kim teaches international relations, international political economy, global governance, and politics of development. Alongside his 20-year teaching career, he has been advising international businesses of various fields on policy, regulatory, and political affairs, including inter-Korea affairs and strategic situations involving the Korean peninsula. Before this dual career track, he was a diplomat serving two of Korea’s trade ministers as policy counselor and special assistant, developing international economic policies. Before that, he had been a US-Justice-Department-registered foreign lobbyist representing Korea’s business interests in Washington. He started his professional career as a consultant researcher at the World Bank’s Economic Development Institute, specializing political economy of East Asia. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Department of Political Science, specializing in international political economy.