Kwangwoo Park

Biography

Kwangwoo Park is Professor of Finance and Head of the Graduare School of Green Growth at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in Seoul, Korea. He received his PhD in finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has Bachelor’s degree in Business from Yonsei University in Seoul. Prior to joining KAIST, Dr. Park has taught at Chung-Ang University in Seoul. Dr. Park also taught at the University of Missouri-Columbia where he got a PhD in economics. His current areas of research interest include financial intermediation and international corporate governance. He has been publishing a number of articles in major finance and economics journals including the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Banking and Finance among others. Dr. Park currently serves as the Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Financial Studies which is the first journal listed in the Social Science Citation Index in the region. Dr. Park was also a research fellow for many leading institutions such as the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the Bank of Korea (the central bank), and Korea Corporate Governance Service, and has been serving as a member of the advisory committees for the Korea Fair Trade Commission, Financial Service Commission, and the Office of the Prime Minister in Korea.

Research Interest

Financial intermediation and international corporate governance