Ambassador Shin-wha Lee is Professor of the Department of Political Science and International Relations & Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Unification Studies (IIUS) at Korea University
Starting her career at the World Bank, she has held visiting positions at SIPRI, Princeton, Columbia, and MIT and was a member of the Republic of Korea’s Committee on Public Diplomacy, Republic of Korea. She is an international advisory member of the Asia-Pacific Center for Responsibility to Protect, and a member of the Trilateral Commission, and the Seoul Forum for International affairs.
Her publications, including South Korean Strategic Thought toward Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula (Routledge, 2023), cover East Asian multilateral security and foreign policies, U.S. multilateral policies, UN security roles, global peacekeeping, and human security. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.