Collaborating with International Organizations


  • Date: May 13th, Thursday, 2021 14:00 – 16:00
  • Location: Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)

Speaker: Ji In Seol (SNUAC, Sungkyunkwan University)

SNUAC will invite experts with abundant experience in UNDP (UN Development Programme), UN-Habitat, UNU (UN University), and multilateral development banks, including AfDB(African Development Bank), to seek their know-how in terms of understanding international organizations, and planning, operating and participating in joint projects. In this worksh0p series, SNUAC will carry out discussions on realistic and practical means to pursue actual cooperation with international organizations.

This workshop is to provide general guidance as to the ways in which an academic research institution can partner and collaborate with international organizations on various occasions. While the session will cover some of the UN agencies, it will mostly focus on the international financial institutions, especially the multilateral development banks. The session will be provided on an off-the-record basis, with notes on what to do and what not to do.

Ji In (Magdalena) Seol is a Visiting Fellow at SNU AC and an Adjunct Professor at the Dept. of Political Science and Diplomacy, Sungkyunkwan University. She has extensive experience in multilateral institutions, having worked with various DFIs and IOs, where she collaborated in major policy-makings such as the G20 Inclusive Business Framework and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Most recently, she led a major renewable energy initiative at the African Development Bank and was involved in a Group-wide digital and disruptive technology initiative spearheaded by the Office of the President of the World Bank Group. Prior to this, she served as an Assistant Secretary to the President for Climate and Environment in the Office of the President of South Korea, managing key globalization agenda related to climate change and national competitiveness. She later led a strategy advisory consultancy dedicated to creating innovation cases in global development industry and elevating South Korea’s global engagements. She was in the Geopolitics of Renewable Energy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Government Innovation Program at Harvard’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. She has an MPA in Business and Government Policy from Harvard Kennedy School with her first graduate work in International Development Studies at the University of Oxford after her B.A. in International Politics at Seoul National University.