Magdalena (Ji In) Seol is an international expert in sustainable development and public sector innovation. She is a founder of a strategy advisory consultancy based in Seoul, GDA (Global Development Advisors), that solely focuses on global development and public impact problems. Prior to this she served as an assistant secretary to the president for climate and Environment in South Korea, managing the key globalization agendas related to climate change and green growth. She has also supported executive decision-making in the business and social sectors as a management strategy consultant. She has extensive experience in multilateral institutions, having worked with various IFIs and IOs. She has been involved in the Government Innovation Program at Harvard's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Geopolitics of Renewable Energy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She has an MPA in business and government policy from Harvard Kennedy School with her first graduate work in international development studies at the University of Oxford as the Oxford Clarendon Scholar and the British Shevening Scholar after her B.A. in international relations at Seoul National University.