Dr. Kim Chang-gil received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics with a specialization in Environmental Economics from the Oklahoma State University. Dr. Kim was a researcher at the Korea Rural Economic Institute (KREI) for 28 years, where he conducted research related to sustainable and environmentally friendly agriculture, climate change, rural policy, and green growth. In 2016, he was elected as the President of KREI, a role in which he served until his retirement in 2019.
Dr. Kim has previously served as an executive member of the Prime Minister's Office's Government Evaluation Committee, the Presidential Committee on Sustainable Development, the Committee of Agricultural Policy Reforms, and the Committee of Mid-term Fiscal Policy of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance. He has also been active in his field beyond research and policy, serving as a as Co-representative of the ICT Convergence Korea Forum and the President of the Korea Agricultural Economics Association.
Dr. Kim has participated internationally as a representative of the Republic of Korea to the OECD Policy Committee on Agricultural and Environment from 2001 to 2013, later serving as Vice-chair of the committee from 2007 to 2013, and as Chair from 2014 to 2017. He served as the Korean representative of the Meetings of Agricultural Chief Scientists (MACS) of G20 and as a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Club, a council of presidents from global agricultural economic research institutes.
After retiring KREI as President of KREI, he was appointed as an invited professor to Seoul National University's Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development with the mandate of establishing a Global High-tech Agricultural Network to foster agricultural human resources in developing countries. He recently served as Senior Advisor of Asia Development Bank and is currently a Vice-president of the Global Innovative Education Lab of the Education Commission Asia.
