2004
Sang-Jo Kim
Chief Presidential Secretary for Policy
Republic of Korea
Sang-Jo Kim is the Chief Presidential Secretary for Policy for the Republic of Korea. Previously, he was Chairman of the Korea Fair Trade Commission. He has played a key role in building consensus for economic reform following South Korea's financial crisis in the late 1990s.
Sang-Jo is also a professor of economics at Hansung University and chairs 'Solidarity for Economic Reform' (SER), a civil organization dedicated to enhancing the corporate governance system through minority shareholder campaigning. Under his leadership, the group won several landmark lawsuits including the one against the directors of Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motors. The cases have become the cornerstone for more clearly defining the fiduciary duties of corporate directors in Korea.
The 2004 World Fellows
The 2004 Yale World Fellows include the executive director of India’s second largest bank; the former Interim Mayor of La Paz, Bolivia; the principal advisor to the Prime Minister of Kosovo; the founder of Morocco’s first independent business newspaper; the director of the Israel’s first legal advocacy group dedicated to Arab minority rights; a Russian corporate governance reformer; Northern Ireland’s top government official in youth development; one of China’s most influential investigative journalists; and the Filipino Congressman who spearheaded passage of that nation’s Clean Air and Clean Water acts. “In just three years, the Yale World Fellows Program has assembled a diverse network of leaders spanning more than 40 countries...Read More
