Hyeok Jeong, Ph.D. in Economics from University of Chicago, worked at the Economics Department of University of Southern California and Vanderbilt University in the United States, at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Japan, and also at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management in Korea, before he joined the faculty of Graduate School of International Studies at the Seoul National University in 2015, where he works now. Professor Jeong’s core research areas are economic growth and development, income distribution dynamics, human capital, and finance. His recent research agenda includes understanding Korea’s development process of the past and future, demography and economy, sustainable global development, balanced regional development, technology innovations and urban development, macroeconomic dynamics of land and housing, firm dynamics and international trade, higher education reform, North Korean economy, and international development cooperation issues such as knowledge sharing and development finance to facilitate the global development. He has served public domains by consulting Korean government and public agencies (Blue House, Office of Prime Minister, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, Ministry of Unification, Bank of Korea, Export-Import Bank of Korea, and Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry) as well as the US public agencies (National Committee on American Foreign Policy), international agencies (World Bank, UNESCAP, UNFPA, OECD DAC), and various government agencies of developing countries including Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and Zambia.