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 Nam, Seung Woo
 
President, Global Compact Korea Network
 Chairman of the Board and CEO, Pulmuone Group

 

Seung Woo Nam is currently the president of UN Global Compact Korea Network and the chairman of the Board and CEO of Pulmuone Group. Educated at Seoul National University majoring in Law, he earned both of his M.S and Ph.D at the graduate school of engineering of Yonsei University. After working at Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co., Ltd as a purchasing manager, he founded Pulmuone Group in 1984.

He is also a recipient of numerous honors/awards, which include the Appreciation Plague from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development(1992), the Presidential Prize in the 30th National Tax day(1996), the 6th Enterprise Prize for economic justice(1997), Management Structure Improvement Superiority Enterprise Prize(2005), and the 1st Innovation Management Prize at Sustainable Management Prize(2006).

 

 


 

 Ju, Chul Ki
 
Vice President, Secretary General of the UN Global Compact Korea Network

 

Chul Ki Ju is currently Vice President and Secretary-General of the United Nations Global Compact Korea Network. He retired from the diplomatic career at the end of 2006 after winding up his long career as Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador to Morocco and Mauritania, and ultimately in France. He also served as Ambassador to UNESCO where he assumed the role of Chairman of ASPAC Group. At home, he worked as Director-General of Economic Affairs of Korean Foreign Ministry covering ASEM, APEC, WTO, OECD as well as Environment, Energy and Development Issues. He served as Chief delegate to many international conferences and as chairman of the Asian Group at the Human Rights Commission in Geneva and Vice Chairman of the Regional Trade Agreement Committee. He taught at the Yonsei University as visiting professor and now he teaches at the Graduate School of International Studies of the Seoul National University as visiting professor. He led efforts for launching the Global Compact Korea Network in September 2007 and serves there as Vice President and Secretary General. He studied in the Graduate School of Public Administration in France and got his master degree of international politics in the Free Brussels University in Belgium. He wrote a book ˇ°France in the 21st centuryˇ± and contributed various articles on the United Nations system, international politics and economics.

 

 

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