Jun Kwang-woo

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Jun Kwang-Woo (전광우), born May 7, 1949 in Seoul, is a Korean economist and business leader. He served as chairman and CEO of the National Pension Service (NPS) of Korea from 2009 to 2013, guiding a public fund of about 900 trillion won and thousands of staff. He helped NPS become a global influence. Before that, he founded and chaired the Financial Services Commission (FSC) in 2008–2009, a cabinet-level body that shaped Korea’s financial policy and supervision, and he played a key role in weathering the 2008 financial crisis. He was also elected chairman of the Asia-Pacific Regional Committee of IOSCO, the first Korean top regulator to hold that post.

Jun has held many other important roles: Korea’s Ambassador for International Finance, chairman of POSCO, chairman of Deloitte Korea, group vice chairman of Woori Financial Holdings, and president of the Korea Center for International Finance. He taught finance at Michigan State University and worked for the World Bank for more than 12 years. During the 1997 Asian financial crisis he returned to Korea as Special Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister.

An author and speaker, he wrote Beyond the Crisis (2010) and has been featured in major publications and media such as the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg and CNBC. Education: BA in economics from Seoul National University; MA in economics, MBA, and PhD in finance from Indiana University. He completed the Harvard Business School Executive Program and the AMP from the Wharton School. In 2013 Indiana University awarded him the Distinguished International Alumni Award.