<Career> Founder & CEO, Blockchain Asia, Hong Kong   Managing Partner, FinTech Consult, Amsterdam/Doha/Frankfurt/Hong Kong/ Kigali/Seoul/Singapore/Tel Aviv/Vienna/Vilnius Senior Advisor, Frankfurt Main Finance (Financial Center of Frankfurt) Member, Advisory Council on FinTech, Astana International Financial Centre Expert, Sino-German Center for Finance and Economics, Frankfurt Fellow, Think Tank der Asian Financial Cooperation Association, Beijing Mentor, Qatar FinTech Hub, Doha Mentor, OneEleven, Toronto Mentor, Plug & Play Tech Center, Frankfurt Mentor, Accelerator Frankfurt

<Career> Ph. D in Business Administration, Seoul National University (Major: Financial Finance)  Professor, Department of Business Administration, Busan National University Dean, Graduate School of Finance, Pusan ​​National University Member, the financial development committee (Financial Services Commission) Member, Housing Financial State (Financial Services Commission) Member, Funding Committee of Korea Securities Depository, KSD Member, financial central development promotion committee Committee member, Asiana Idt Co., Ltd. Former Vice Dean, Business Administration of Pusan ​​National University Head, BB21 Business Management Committee Chairman, Busan National University Gift Finance Research Institute Former Director, Pusan ​​National University Real Estate Graduate School Former Director, Research Institutions (Economic Sector) Member, Risk Management Committee (Housing Finance Corporation) Former Chairman, Risk Management Committee (Housing City Guarantee) President, Korea Finance Engineering Director, the Korea Securities Society Vice Chairman, the Attorney Conference Vice President, the Financial Administration Society

<Career> Ph.D., Capital Market Research Institute

Prof. Heesung Yun is currently in charge of the Dept. of Maritime Finance at the Graduate School of Maritime Finance, KMOU.  He obtained a Master’s degree in Shipping, Trade, and finance from Bayes Business School, City, Univ. of London, and acquired Ph.D. in maritime finance from KMOU. His professional career with SK Shipping and HMM has deepened his understanding of shipping practice and management.  During his time at the Korea Maritime Institute, he utilized his practical knowledge and experience to develop maritime policies for the Korean government. His research interests include converting practical topics into academic research in the fields of shipping market forecasting, the application of AI-based analysis to shipping, shipping derivatives, etc.

Dr. Gongpil Choi has worked as the CSO, CRO at the Woori Financial Group (NYSE:WF) from 2008-2009. He served as a National Intelligence Officer (Economics) for the National Intelligence Service from 2007-2008. His prior experience includes positions as a senior advisor and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Banking Supervision and Regulation, International Supervision in charge of MUFG US license approval from 2005-2006. He also had a series of visiting scholar appointments at UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, and the Santa Fe Institute from 2000-2001. Before joining the Korea Institute of Finance (KIF), where he has served on and off since 1994, he worked for Daewoo Research Institute and the Korea Chamber of Commerce. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a Ph.D. in Economics.  He specializes in open macro policy analyses with extensive quantitative techniques. Under the support of the World Bank, he developed the official prototype for an EWS for currency crises in the wake of the 1997 currency crisis. He is the recipient of the Maekyoung Economist Award for his work on the implications of the capital adequacy of Korean banks. He currently serves as a Senior Advisor at the Korea Institute of Finance and a director at the APCF(Asian Prime Collateral Forum), and academic member of the World Fintech Council.

<Education> 1982 Seoul National University, BA in economics 1994 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ph.D. in economics   <Career> Aug. 2010 – Feb. 2012 Director-General of International Department, the Bank of Korea Mar. 2012 – Apr. 2013 Deputy Governor, the Bank of Korea Apr. 2013 – Apr. 2016 President, Korea Financial Telecommunication and Clearings Institute (KFTC)  Sep. 2018 – Jun. 2020 Sogang University Adjunct professor in economics Jul. 2020 – Present President, Busan Finance Center

<Education>  1988 Sungkyunkwan University, BA in English Literature 2003 Korea University, Master in International Business   <Career> Jul. 2013 – Jan. 2015 Head of Global Structured & Corporate Finance Unit, Korea Development Bank Jan. 2015 – Jan. 2018 General Manager, KDB New York Branch Jan. 2018 – Jul. 2020 Consultant, in Research and Corporate Finance Jul. 2020 – Current Director, Korea Ocean Business Corporation