Dr Gwang Jo Kim

Gwang-Jo Kim is the former Deputy Minister of Education and Human Resources Development in South Korea. As a top-elite leading the Ministry of Education since 1980, he has dedicated his entire professional career to working on the design and implementation of educational policies. He is well known for his pioneering work on “Education Reform”(1995), “Teachers Policy Reform”(1998), and “HRD Policy Reform”(2004), which became respectively a turning point in the modern Korean educational history. Especially, the Education Reform launched in 1995 proposed Korean people to shift the conventional perspective in education from the “supplier-centered education” to the “customer-centered learning.” During 2001-3, he had also served in the World Bank (HDNED) as a senior education specialist mainly working in the Latin American and Caribbean Region. He has a Ed.D. in Economics of Education from Harvard University and a BA in Law from Korea University.