Jong‐Wha Lee

Jong-Wha Lee is a professor of economics at Korea University. He served as a senior adviser for international economic affairs to former President of the Republic of Korea. He was also previously Chief Economist and Head of the Office of Regional Economic Integration at the Asian Development Bank and an economist at the International Monetary Fund. He has taught at Columbia University, Harvard University and Peking University. He has published extensively on topics relating to human capital, growth, financial crises, and economic integration in leading academic journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, and Review of Economics and Statistics. His most recent books include Is this the Asian Century? (World Scientific, 2017) and Education Matters: Global Schooling Gains from the 19th to the 21st Century, coauthored with R. J. Barro (Oxford University Press, 2015). He is a regular columnist for Project Syndicate. He obtained his Ph.D. and Master’s degree in Economics from Harvard University.