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KI-CHAN KIM
Professor of Business Administration, The Catholic University of Korea
Chair of the Board, International Council for Small Business
Visiting Professor of Management, The George Washington University
Dr. Ki-Chan Kim is a Professor of Business Administration at The Catholic University of Korea. He received a PhD from Seoul National University, Korea, and has researched at the University of Tokyo, and MIT as a visiting scholar. His research interests are modularization with IT, inter-firm relationship at the automotive industry, and supply chain management.
Dr. Kim is the current Chair of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) Board of Directors. He is Past-President of the Asian Council for Small Business, the Asian regional affiliate of ICSB. Through his role as Past-President, he hosted the 2014 Annual ACSB Asian SME Conference in Seoul, South Korea. He is also one of the Chief Researchers of HeBEx Healthiness of Business Ecosystems, a new and innovative report seeking to assess the relative healthiness of a country’s creativity, opportunity, and productivity.
AYMAN EL TARABISHY
Executive Director, The Korean Management Institute President & CEO, International Council of Small Business (ICSB) Professor of Management, The George Washington University
Dr. Ayman El Tarabishy is the deputy chair of the Department of Management and a teaching professor of management at the George Washington University School of Business. His expertise involves entrepreneurship and creative, innovative, humane-focused practices. In addition, Dr. El Tarabishy is the president & CEO of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), the oldest and largest non-profit organization devoted to advancing small business research and practices. The council is a coalition of more than 23 knowledge hubs represented in over 150 countries.
Dr. El Tarabishy is an award-winning author and teacher. In 2022, he was awarded the "Outstanding Accelerated Master of Business Administration Faculty Award."
H.E. Ambassador OH JOON
His excellency served as the President of the Economic and Social Council until 2016. Ambassador Joon also served as the President of the Conference of States’ Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Previously, Ambassador Joon served as President of the Security Council from 2013-2014.
In his positions, Ambassador Joon has been an active leader on behalf of the United Nations on a variety of important issues involving relations between North Korea and it’s neighbors South Korea, China, and Russia. Most recently, Ambassador Joon spoke out about the need for governments to work together to realize and mitigate disasters caused by climate change and El Nino.
Prior to his role at the UN, Ambassador Joon he was Ambassador of the Republic of Korea in Singapore from 2010-13 and Deputy Minister for Multilateral and Global Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Seoul from 2008-10.
President and CEO of PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
Aug. 2007 Honorary Doctorate Degree in Public Administration, Hoseo University, Korea
Aug. 2003 Ph.D. in Business Management, Kyunghee University, Korea
May 1987 MBA, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Feb. 1973 Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University, Korea
Feb. 1971 BA in Electronics Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea
Professor, Department of Management Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar & Professor of Management
Dr. Herman Aguinis is the Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Management and the past chair of the Department of Management at the George Washington University School of Business (GWSB). He was elected for the presidency track of the Academy of Management (AOM), served as vice president and program chair for the AOM 2020 Virtual Conference, and is now serving as the academy’s president. The 2020, 2019 and 2018 Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers Reports ranked him among the world’s 100 most impactful researchers in economics and business. He has received career awards for lifetime contributions from the Academy of Management, Society for Human Resource Management, and Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Prior to joining GWSB, he was the John F. Mee Chair of Management and the Founding and Managing Director of the Institute for Global Organizational Effectiveness in the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University.
YOUNG HOON KWAK
Associate Professor of Decision Sciences, The George Washington University
Young Hoon Kwak is an Associate Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at The George Washington University School of Business in Washington, D.C. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering and Project Management as well as Management of Technology (MOT) Certificate, all from the University of California at Berkeley. He worked as a visiting engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a visiting professor at the Florida International University, a visiting scholar at the IPA Institute, and currently holds a guest research professor position at the department of information science and operations management, faculty of economics and business administration at Ghent University in Belgium.
Dr. Kwak serves as a specialty editor (associate editor) for the case studies section of the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management (ASCE) and an associate editor for Journal of Management in Engineering (ASCE) and serves on the editorial board for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (IEEE), International Journal of Project Management (Elsevier), International Journal of Managing Projects in Business (Emerald) and Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management (KICEM).
YOUNGKI PARK
Associate Professor of Information Systems & Technology Management, GW School of Business
Dr. YoungKi Park is an associate professor of Information Systems & Technology Management at the George Washington University School of Business. He received his Ph.D. from the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California (USC) and his M.S. from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Korea. He also has 10 years of IT consulting experience in database, business intelligence, analytics, and enterprise systems at Oracle, LG, and the Korea Exchange before pursuing his doctoral studies.
His research areas include digital strategy, digitally enabled organizational capability, digital transformation, competitive dynamics in digital environments and he specializes in the set-theoretic configurational approach, fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). His work has been published in premier journals, including Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, and Research in Sociology of Organizations. He received multiple research and teaching awards.
Dr. Park has been serving as an Associate Editor at MIS Quarterly since 2022.
Assistant Teaching Professor, Management Department, GWSB
Project Director, Korean Management Institute.
<brDr. Jungho Suh is a teaching assistant professor of management and tourism studies at the George Washington University School of Business (GWSB). He joined GWSB from the Surrey International Institute at Dongbei University of Finance and Economics (SII-DUFE), China, where he served as assistant professor of tourism management for three years. His areas of expertise include destination branding, destination marketing, sustainable tourism management, social media marketing, hospitality marketing, service management, and the sharing economy.
Dr. Suh teaches undergraduate and MTA courses in hospitality management, digital marketing in hospitality and tourism, destination management, travel marketing communications, and conference and exhibition management. His teaching approach aims to design a collaborative team-based learning environment to cultivate students’ leadership and critical-thinking abilities in the context of hospitality and tourism.
Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Technology Management
Dr. Sunghun Chung is an assistant professor of information systems and technology management at the George Washington University School of Business in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Chung is an expert in examining the societal impact of FinTech markets; quantifying the economic value from IT-based innovation; and developing the social media strategy based on big data analytics. His primary research interests focus on 1) the FinTech analytics and financial inclusion, 2) business analytical issues of social media, and 3) the business value and economic impact of information technology (IT). His research has appeared in Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Production Operations Management, among others.
Director of GW Institute for Korean Studies; Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures
Jisoo M. Kim is a specialist in gender and legal history of early modern Korea. Her broader research interests include crime and justice, forensic medicine, history of emotions, literary representations of the law, diglossia, vernacular, and gender and sexuality. Her first book, The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea (Seattle: University of Washington Press, December 2015), which received the 2017 James B. Palais Book Prize, traces the discourse of emotions in the realm of law and examines how the narrative of wŏn (冤) or the sense of being wronged played a crucial role in seeking and performing justice. She is currently working on a book project, tentatively titled Crime of Violence: Forensic Medicine, Dead Bodies, and Legal Emotions in Early Modern Korea.
Associate Dean for Executive Education, Program Director Master of Science in Finance, Professor of Finance, The George Washington University
George Jabbour is the associate dean for executive education, professor of finance, and director of the Masters in Finance Program at the George Washington University School of Business. He has been a consultant and conducting professional training for the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C. (USA), Vienna (Austria) and Islamabad (Pakistan), for The International Training Banking Center in Budapest (Hungary), the Center of Excellence in Management in Kuwait, and for Kipco Asset Management Group (KAMCO) in Kuwait. Dr. Jabbour was a visiting professor at Franklin College in Lugano (Switzerland), Dongseo University (South Korea), Holy Spirit University-Kaslik (Lebanon), Renmin University of Beijing (China), and Sorbonne University in Paris (France).
He developed curriculum for Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Science degrees in business and finance. He has several publications in professional refereed journals. Dr. Jabbour co-authored “The Option Trader Handbook” for trade adjustments. His research papers were presented in the United States and around the world.
Managing Director of Growth Dialogue & Professor of Practice of International Business, The George Washington University
Danny Leipziger is the managing director of the Growth Dialogue, a network that works to extend economic growth to as many places on the planet as possible. Driven by a passionate belief that without growth, sustainable development and improvements in people’s lives are impossible, the Growth Dialogue seeks to connect high level policymakers and thought leaders with those whose policy decisions can benefit from practical experience and the latest work on economic growth.
Dr. Leipziger formerly headed the World Bank’s Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) vice presidency, a network of more than 700 economists and other professionals working on economic policy, lending, and analytic work for the World Bank’s client countries. In this capacity, he provided strategic leadership and direction to regional PREM units as well as groups working on economic policy formulation in the area of growth and poverty, debt, trade, gender, and public sector management and governance.
The Korean Management Institute (KMI) at The George Washington University School of Business (GWSB) brings together a wide range of business people, policy makers, academicians, government experts, students, and others who have an interest in U.S.- Korea relations. Their interaction with the Institute through a portfolio of diverse programs – classes, workshops, international exchange, executive education, and research – will enrich their professional experience and contribute to a greater understanding of U.S.-Korea relations.