Hyeok Jeong is a professor at Seoul National University (SNU). Before joining the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) at SNU in 2015, he worked at the Economics Departments of the University of Southern California and Vanderbilt University in the United States, at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Japan, and at KDI School in Korea. He was also visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, UCLA, and Minneapolis Fed, and a Consultant Economist at the World Bank. His main research interests are growth and inequality dynamics focusing on finance and human capital, Korean economic development, demographic transition, trade and innovations, smart city and urban development. Another branch of policy research agenda includes international development cooperation, knowledge sharing of Korean development experience, North Korean economy, higher education reform to facilitate the global development. He has served public domains by consulting Korean government and public agencies, US public agencies, and various international agencies. Hyeok holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, US.