Kyung-Hwan Kim is a professor of economics at Sogang University where he has been on the faculty since 1988 and was academic dean (2003- 2006), and executive vice president for research and external affairs (2019). He is a former vice minister of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the Republic of Korea (2015- 2017). Mr. Kim is a fellow at the Weimer Graduate School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Urban Land Economic, a fellow of the Asian Real Estate Society (AsRES), a scholar at the Penn Institute for Urban Research, a member of the editorial board of Journal of Housing Economics, and of the international advisory board of Housing Studies.
Dr. Kim taught at Syracuse University (1986-88), University of Wisconsin-Madison (2002-03), and Singapore Management University (2010-11). He was president of Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (2013-2015), urban finance advisor at the UN Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) (1994-96), and president of the AsRES (2001-02). He had served on various government committees of Korea on housing, urban planning and local public finance prior to his service in the government. He also worked as consultant for the World Bank and several other international organizations. He was head of delegation of the Republic of Korea to the Habitat III Conference.
Dr. Kim has published in major academic journals in urban economics and real estate. He received his PhD in economics from Princeton University in 1987.