Ilpyo Hong served as the Secretary General of the National Research Council on Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences under the Prime Minister. Prior to that, he worked at the Blue House(the Presidential Office), the National Assembly, independent think tanks such as Institute of the Future, the Hope Institute, and the Hankyoreh Economic Research Institute, which is affiliated with the Hankyoreh newspaper, and People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy which is known as the most influential NGO in Korea. He received his Ph.D. from Seoul National University’s Department of Sociology in 2006 on the topic of “Citizen Legislative Movements in the aftermath of Democratizaion of Korea,” which he published as a book. From 2006 to 2008, he was a visiting fellow at the Sigur Center at George Washington University in the United States and published a book on the US think tanks. Since then, he has continued his research on social movements and democracy, legislation and policy making, and think tanks in Korea and around the world, and has published a number of academic articles in various journals and columns and reports in newspapers. His recent research interests include the history, current status, characteristics, and strategies of “Asian think tanks,” focusing on Korea, China, Japan, and Indonesia, and he is working to establish exchanges, cooperation, and networking among them.
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