Jeong-Dong Lee


Jeong-dong Lee is a Korean academic currently serving as the Special Advisor to the President on Economy and Science since his appointment by President Moon Jae-in in January 2019. He is a professor of Interdisciplinary Graduate Program on Technology Management, Economics and Policy and the Department of Industrial Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea.

Education

Prof. Jeong-Dong Lee got a Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D. of Engineering at Seoul National University.

Career

His main research topics include firm dynamics, productivity and efficiency analysis, evolutionary economics, economics of technological change, etc.
He published five books and edited two including “Productivity, Efficiency and Economic Growth in the Asia Pacific Region” by Springer Verlag in 2008. Professor Lee also published more than 70 articles in peer reviewed academic journals, such as the Economic Modelling, Industrial and Corporate Change, Energy & Environment, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Scientometrics, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Small Business Economics, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Applied Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Technovation, Journal of the Operations Research Society, Mathematical and Computer Modeling, Asian Journal of Technology Innovation. He served as the Principal Coordinator for the Asia Pacific Productivity Conference in 2006 and 2018 and as the President for Korean Productivity Association in 2011, and the President for Korean Corporation Management Association in 2017.
He has been a Member of the National Academy of Engineers of Korea since 2018. He served as an Editor of Science and Public Policy, Oxford Journal from 2018. He has been active in providing consultations for the government and private sectors.

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