Dr. Jong-Hwan KIM is Director of Chemicals Management Office of Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute or KEITI, and is in charge of the Task Force for the legislation of the Biocidal Product Act.
Originally trained as a chemical engineer, he has studied environment management and urban planning at Seoul National University and INSA Lyon, France. He is a researcher and project manager with a multidisciplinary academic and professional background, with expertise in the domain of strategic planning. He held positions for the research and policy development on environmental issues in both public and private sectors: at the LG Environment Research Institute, he helped the LG group companies and other public agencies in building their strategies on environmental management, including climate change issues. In the Presidential Commission on Sustainable Development, as Director of SD Planning, he has led the setting up of the National Sustainable Development Strategy and its implementation and evaluation system, as well as a national SD indicator set.
He has been participating in national delegations for the Working Party on Integration of Economic and Environmental Policy (WPIEEP) and Working Party on Environmental Information (WPEI) of the OECD Environmental Policy Committee. He is also serving as a member of the Central Committee on Environmental Policy of the Ministry of Environment.