Speaker
OH Seongik
Affliation
working Party for Rural Policy under OECD Regional Development Policy Committee
Title
Vice-chief
Session
East Asia Cooperation Plan for the Change of Welfare Paradigm in the Age of Low Fertility and Super-Aging

Biography

Seongik OH is responsible for cadastral resurvey of Korea at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and is Vice Chair of the Working Party for Rural Policy under OECD Regional Development Policy Committee. In 2022, he participated in the first Ukraine Reconstruction Conference, where he met Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Kubrakov, explaining the meaning of Korea’s economic development for Ukraine. He received master's degrees from Harvard Kennedy School and Tufts University, respectively. Also, he earned a Ph.D. degree from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. He worked as a civil servant at the Ministry of Ocean and Fisheries, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and the Presidential Committee for Regional Development. He is also adjunct professor at Graduate School of Public Administration, Yonsei University, where he teaches urban life and regional development. He authored “Overseas Energy Investment of Korea and Japan” (Palgrave McMillan 2023), and wrote an article “A Ticking Time Bomb in the East China Sea” in the National Interest.