Prof Keun Lee

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Keun Lee is a Professor of Economics at the Seoul National University (SNU), and Head of the Center for Comparative Economic Studies of SNU. He is also the Vice-chairman of the National Economic Advisory Council, which is a key advisory position for the President of Korea (Chairman of the Council). He is a Fellow of the CIFAR (Canada) program on Innovation, Equity and Prosperit, and founding director of the Center for Economic Catch-up. He is the winner of the 2014 Schumpeter Prize for his monograph on Schumpeterian Analysis of Economic Catch-up (2013 Cambridge Univ. Press), as well as the 2019 Kapp Prize from the EAEPE, for his article on national innovation systems. He is also an editor of Research Policy , and an associate editor of Industrial and Corporate Change. He served as the President of the International Schumpeter Society (2016-18), a member of the Committee for Development Policy of UN (2013-18), a council member of the World Economic Forum (2016-19).and the President of the Korean International Economic Association (2020), He obtained Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. One of his most cited articles is a paper on Korea’s Technological Catch-up published in Research Policy, with 1,350 citations (Google Scholar). His H-index is 46, with about 118 papers with more than 10 citations. He has a new book, China’s Technological Leapfrogging and Economic Catch-up, forthcoming from Oxford Univ. Press (2021).