Jie-ae Sohn is an Amabassador for Cultural Cooperation of the Republic of Korea. She is an invited professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha Womans University, focusing on international communications. She also consults on communications strategies for various organizations such as the World Bank and the Asia Foundation. Jie-ae spent 15 years from 1995 to 2010 as CNN’s bureau chief and correspondent based in Seoul. She then joined the South Korean government, serving as the spokesperson of the Presidential Committee for the Seoul G20 Summit in 2010 and then the Presidential Secretary of the Office of Overseas Public Relations. She was the President/CEO of the Korea International Broadcasting Foundation, which runs Korea’s only English-language broadcasting station, Arirang TV and Radio.