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South Korean politician (born 1955)
Chae Su-chan
(
Korean
:
채수찬
; born 1955) is a South Korean academic and politician. He is a former member of the
National Assembly of Korea
and a professor at the
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
. He also serves as the chairman of the board of the Han River Society.
Academic and political career
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While in the National Assembly, he was a member of the National Policy Committee, which had oversight over the Financial Supervisory Service and the Fair Trade Commission, and also a member of the Finance and Economy Committee, which had oversight over the Ministry of Finance and Economy. He also served as the Special Envoy of President
Roh Mu-hyun
to the 2005
World Economic Forum
at Davos. During the Asian economic crisis, he advised Korean policy makers including President
Kim Dae-jung
, and wrote columns both in Korean and in English in worldwide newspapers regarding the solutions to the crisis.
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Before he was elected to the Korean National Assembly, he had been an economics professor at
Rice University
for almost 20 years. He earned a B.S. and M.S. in mathematics in his native South Korea before coming to the
University of Pennsylvania
, where he earned his Ph.D. in economics in 1985.
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Suchan Chae's professional publications have mostly been in the areas of bargaining theory, industrial organization, and general economic theory. He has held visiting positions in universities and research institutes in several countries. In South Korea, he has been a visitor at the Korea Development Institute, Korea Information Society Development Institute, and the
Korea Institute for International Economic Policy
. He has also been as a guest scholar with the
Brookings Institution
.
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