Yun Byung-se is Chairman of the Seoul International Law Academy (SILA), co-Chair of the GC REAIM (The Global Commission on Responsible AI in the Military Domain) and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea from March 2013 to June 2017.
He also served as Deputy National Security Adviser (Senior Secretary) to the President in charge of Korea’s foreign, defence and unification policy and as Senior Coordinator at the National Security Council of the Presidential Office.
As a career diplomat with 37 year-long experience, he was intensively involved in both bilateral and multilateral diplomacy. His foreign service includes the US, the UN (both New York and Geneva), Singapore and Australia. At home, Byung Se served as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
He regularly contributes his writings to the Korea JoongAng Daily and the Korea Times and moderates the annual CSIS-JoongAng Conference and other forums frequently.
Byung Se graduated from Seoul National University College of Law and received a MA degree from Johns Hopkins University’s Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
