Faculty of the Korean Management Institute

Dr. Ayman El Tarabishy is Executive Director of the Korean Management Institute and a Teaching Professor of Management at the George Washington University School of Business. He also serves as President & CEO of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB). His work focuses on MSMEs, entrepreneurship, innovation, human-centered entrepreneurship, and strengthening global research and policy dialogue.

Dr. 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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

George Jabbour is a 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 conducted 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), and for the Center of Excellence in Management Development.

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.

Dr. Danny Leipziger is Professor of International Business and International Affairs at the George Washington University, and Managing Director of The Growth Dialogue. At GWSB, he has pioneered new courses, including those on financial crises, taught to undergraduates, graduates, and visiting officials from developing countries. He has brought senior figures such as the IMF's Managing Director and the World Bank's CEO to campus, and he has taught in the Buenos Aires program of GWSB.

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.

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.

Hee-Beom Lee served as President and CEO of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. His academic record, as listed on the original KMI site: