Sang Hyun Lee is a senior research fellow and Chief Director for Research Planning at the Sejong Institute in Korea. He also serves as President of the Korea Nuclear Policy Society (KNPS). He received his B.A. and M.A. from Seoul National University and Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaignin1999.
He was a research fellow at the Korean Institute for International Studies (1987-88), the Korea Institute for Defense Analysis (1988-90), and a policy advisor for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of National Unification, and the Ministry of National Defense. He has served as Director-General for Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) from May 2011 to April 2013.
His main research interests include international politics and security, Korea-U.S. relations, inter-Korean relations, nonproliferation, and East Asian security issues. His recent publications include: “U.S. Strategic Rebalancing Policy: Background, Structure, and Prospect” (2014), “South Korea’s Foreign Policy Strategy toward Peace and Stability on the Korean Peninsula”(2013), “U.S. Strategy for Contingency Situations on the Korean Peninsula” (2013), “South Korea’s Complex Diplomacy for the Network Age” (2012), New Security Landscape in East Asia (2011, co-authored, in Korean), Korea’s National Strategy in the Age of Global Transformation (2011, in Korean), and “South Korea’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy and Korea-US Nuclear Cooperation” (2010).