Kim Taekyoon is Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and professor of International Development at the Seoul National University, Graduate School of International Studies. Since 2018, he has served as one of the Executive Committee of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). His career includes a Fulbright Wilson Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D. C., Executive Secretary at the Korean Association of International Studies (KAIS), Consultant for the UNESCO, Editor-in-Chief of Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Visiting Professor of the University of Tuebingen, Germany and Lingnan University, Hong Kong, etc. He received D.Phil. from the University of Oxford and Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

His publications appear at various peer-reviewed journals such as Oxford Development Studies, Pacific Focus, Journal of Democracy, Voluntas, Global Governance, and so forth. His scholarly interests cover international development, global governance, peace studies, global south studies, and international political sociology.

김태균 교수는 서울대학교 국제대학원 교수와 부원장을 역임하고 있다. 2018년부터 한국국제협력단(KOICA) 민간 비상임이사를 역임하고 있으며, 미국 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars이 초빙연구원, 한국국제정치학회 총무이사, UNESCO 컨설턴트, Asian Journal of Peacebuilding 편집장, 독일 튀빙겐대학과 홍콩 링난대하교 방문교수 등을 역임하였다. 영국 옥스퍼드대학교와 미국 존스홉킨스 고등국제관계대학원(SAIS)에서 박사학위를 취득하였다.
주요 연구주제는 국제개발, 글로벌 거버넌스, 국제정치사회학으로 Oxford Development Studies, Pacific Focus, Journal of Democracy, Voluntas, Global Governance 등 주요 국제저널에 저작을 출판하여 왔다.