Seungjoo LEE is Dean of College of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Chung-Ang University (Seoul, Korea), Chair of the Trade, Technology, and Transformation Research Center at the East Asia Institute (EAI), Senior Research Affiliate at the Berkeley APEC Study Center (BASC) at the University of California at Berkeley, and Visiting Fellow at Centre for Emerging Technology and Security (CETaS) at the Alan Turing Institute. He is currently a member of the Advisory Committee on Economic Security and Foreign Affairs (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), a member of the Policy Advisory Board of the Ministry of National Defense, and Chief of Review Board at the National Research Foundation. Previously Seungjoo was an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore. He has also held various positions in academic associations in Korea such as the Korean Association of International Studies and the Korean Political Science Association. He is the co-author of The Political Economy of Change and Continuity in Korea: Twenty Years after the Crisis. He has also edited, among other works, Korea’s Middle Power Diplomacy, Geoeconomics and the 21st Century Transformation, International Political Economy in Cyberspace, International Politics of Belt and Road, and Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific. His publications have appeared in various journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Chinese Political Science, The Pacific Review, Asian Survey, Business and Politics, Natural Hazards Review, Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Korean Journal of International Studies, Korean Political Science Review and Global Asia. His current research focuses on the economy-security nexus, economic statecraft, the U.S.-China technology competition, and global digital governance. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley.