Visiting Fellow Kyung-Hwan Kim

Kyung-Hwan Kim headshot
Visiting Scholar
Academic Year: 2017-18

Kyung-Hwan Kim is a professor of economics at Sogang University where he has been on the faculty since 1988 and was academic dean from 2003 till 2006. He is a former vice minister of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the Republic of Korea (May 2015-June 2017). Kim is a fellow at the Weimer Graduate School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, a Penn Institute for Urban Research scholar, a fellow of the Asian Real Estate Society (AsRES), a member of the editorial board of Journal of Housing Economics, and of the international advisory board of Housing Studies. Kim taught at Syracuse University from 1986 to 1988; the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2002 to 2003; and Singapore Management University from 2010 to 2011. He was president of Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements from 2013 to 2015; urban finance advisor at the UN Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) from 1994 to 1996 and President of AsRES from 2001 to 2002. He served on various government committees of Korea on housing, urban planning, and local public finance, as well as working as a consultant for the World Bank and several other international organizations. Kim has published in major journals in urban economics and real estate. He received his PhD in economics from Princeton University in 1987.

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