EWHA WOMANS UNIVERSITY | Undergraduate/Graduate | Professional Graduate School | The Graduate School of International Studies

Young-sook Nam Professor

Department of International Studies

Young-sook Nam is a university professor, diplomat, and economist with extensive experience in international and national policymaking. She has served as Korea’s Ambassador to Norway (2018-2021), Economic Advisor to the President of the Republic of Korea (2021-2022), and Secretary General of WeGO (World Smart and Sustainable Cities Organization) (2016-2018). Currently, she is a professor at Ewha Womans University’s Graduate School of International Studies, where she is also Director of the Development Cooperation Program.

Before joining Ewha Womans University in March 2008, she had held various posts at international and governmental institutions, including economist at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, research economist at the International Labor Office (ILO) in Geneva, and research fellow and head of the China Research Team at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) in Seoul. She was Deputy Director-General at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Korea, where she played a leading role in negotiating a number of Korea’s free trade agreements (FTAs), including the Korea-U.S. FTA, the Korea-EU FTA, and the Korea-ASEAN FTA.

Professor Nam received her M.A. in Economics and Ph.D. in International Development from Stanford University and her B.A. in Economics from Korea University. She has published widely on development cooperation, international trade negotiations, environmental policies, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and the Chinese economy. Her current research interests include sustainable development, climate negotiations and diplomacy, China and the global economy, and comparative welfare state regimes.

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Research Record

중국 내 기업의 사회적 책임(CSR) 확산의 동인과 제약 요인－정부의 역할을 중심으로－ 동북아경제연구, 2015, v.27 no.2, 243-274
KCI dColl.
중국의 아프리카에 대한 개발원조 연구: 가나의 사례를 중심으로* 국제지역연구, 2013, 제17권 1호, 29-60
KCI dColl.

Courses

2024-1st
- Academic Skills
  - Subject No IS319Class No 01
  - Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Tue 4~5 (I-EDU-902)
- Development Cooperation: Theory and Practice
  - Subject No IS410Class No 01
  - Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Thu 4~5 (I-EDU-902)
2023-2nd
- Academic Skills
  - Subject No IS319Class No 01
  - Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Fri 4~5 (I-EDU-902)
- Development Cooperation: Theory and Practice
  - Subject No IS410Class No 01
  - Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Tue 4~5 (I-EDU-902)
- Sustainable Development
  - Subject No IS507Class No 01
  - Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Thu 4~5 (I-EDU-902)
2023-1st
- Academic Skills
  - Subject No IS319Class No 02
  - Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Fri 2~3 (I-EDU-902)
- Development Cooperation: Theory and Practice
  - Subject No IS410Class No 01
  - Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Thu 2~3 (I-EDU-902)
2022-2nd
- Development Cooperation: Theory and Practice
  - Subject No IS410Class No 01
  - Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Tue 6~7 (I-EDU-902)
- Sustainable Development
  - Subject No IS645Class No 01
  - Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Thu 4~5 (I-EDU-1002)

Academic Background

Stanford University Ph.D.(경제학)

Stanford University M.A.(경제학과)

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