Experience

• Lead Departmental Economist, East Asia, World Bank
• Principal Economist, Korea and Southeast Asia Division, East Asia and Pacific Country Programs Department
• Senior Economist, Financial Policy Department, World Bank

Recent Engagements:

• Presidential First Anniversary Conference Participant, February 2009
• Institute for Global Economics, Lecture: Implications of the Financial Crisis for Developing Countries
• Korean Development Institute, Presentation: How Can Korea Raise its Future Potential Growth Rate?
• Interview in Maeil Economic Daily

Written Work :

• How can Korea Raise its Future Potential Growth Rate?
with Elena Ianchovichina; World Economics, Volume 9, Number 4, October-December 2008

• The Distribution of Income and Wealth in Korea
with D. Dollar, A. Shorrocks, and S. Song; World Bank, EDI Development Studies 1992
• Korea: Transition into Maturity
Elsevier Press, 1988
• The Global Standards and Korea
Journal of International and Area Studies, Graduate Institute for International and Area Studies, Seoul National University, 2000

• Public and Private Interests in Korea: Views on Moral Hazard and Crisis Resolution
Economic Development Institute Working Paper, World Bank, 1998
• Thinking about the World Bank and North Korea
Economic Integration of the Korean Peninsula, Institute for International Economics, 1998;Marc Noland, editor