John Park

-Director, Korea Working Group -Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School -Faculty Affiliate, Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Professor John Park is Director of the Korea Project and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a Faculty Affiliate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Professor Park was the 2012-13 Stanton Nuclear Security Junior Faculty Fellow at MIT’s Security Studies Program. He previously directed Northeast Asia Track 1.5 projects at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. These initiatives include the U.S.-China Project on Crisis Avoidance & Cooperation, the U.S.-ROK-Japan Trilateral Dialogue in Northeast Asia, and the U.S.-China-Japan Dialogue on Risk Reduction & Crisis Prevention. He advises Northeast Asia policy-focused officials in the U.S. government.

-Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School -Victor and William Fung Director, -Harvard University Asia Center Chair, Harvard University Asia Center Council

Karen Thornber

Professor Karen Thornber is a Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Dr. Thornber is author of three major scholarly monographs – Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature (Harvard 2009); Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures (Michigan 2012); and Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care (Brill forthcoming 2019). Professor Thornber is also an award-winning translator of Japanese poetry of the atomic bomb.

David Lee

- Partner, SK Telecom Ventures; B&C GroupChief - Corporate Development Officer, 451 Media - Co-Founder, XG Ventures, Kstartup

David co-founded XG Ventures, a Google alumni fund and was co-founding Partner of SK Telecom Ventures, the largest Korean mobile carrier’s $100M corporate venture fund based in Silicon Valley, while launching KStartup, the first startup accelerator in Asia to be funded by Google. His personal and VC investments include over 50 companies with 20+ acquisitions. Past and present portfolio includes Tapulous (acq. by Disney), Posterous (acq. by Twitter), Olaworks (acq. by Intel), Scoopler (acq. by Google), ABitLucky (acq. by Zynga), Chai Labs (acq. by Facebook), Cue (acq. by Apple), Kabam (acq. by Netmarble), Chartboost, nWay, Wish, Omlet, and many others. David is also an LP in Y Combinator and SV Angel.

Professor Mark Wu is the Henry L. Stimson Professor at Harvard Law School. His research focuses on international trade law, including issues concerning emerging economies, digital trade, intellectual property, trade remedies, environment, and investment.

At Harvard, Professor Wu is a Faculty Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He serves as a member of the Faculty Advisory Committees of the East Asian Legal Studies Program and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. He is also a Faculty Associate of Harvard University’s Center for the Environment.

- Professor of Harvard Law School - Faculty Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society - Faculty Advisory Committees of the East Asian Legal Studies Program

Mark Wu

- Senior Technology Advisor, World Bank - Senior Fellow, Lee Kuan Yew School, National University of Singapore - Professor of Practice, Zhejiang International Business School

Lesly Goh

Lesly Goh transitioned to World Bank Senior Technology Advisor after serving as the Chief Technology Officer role. She is a Fellow at Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) Judge Business School and Senior Fellow at National University of Singapore (NUS) Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Lesly is appointed as Professor of Practice by ZheJiang International Business School (ZIBS). Her expertise is in leveraging emerging technology to deliver agile solutions for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) at the intersection of technology and policy frameworks. For almost 30 years, her experience on FinTech, RegTech, GovTech spans across both the private and public sectors. She has worked extensively on the practical application of Disruptive Technology such as Blockchain, AI, IoT, 5G and Edge Computing.

- R&D vice president, Proctor and Gamble -Founder, Second Chance for Health -Former Group Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Sime Darby

Hari Nair

Hari’s currently a R&D Vice President at Procter and Gamble. He is also a Visiting Scholar and Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard. Hari’s fellowship research focused on education and health which led to the establishment of three initiatives: Aeternum is focused on an innovative education platform for those above 50 years old facing career and personal transitions; Second Chance for Health is focused on creating kitchens in workplaces to give employees paid to to cook healthy meals; Sureksha Labs a diagnostic service for biomonitoring in rural India.