Kyung Wook HUR currently serves as Chairman of the Seoul Financial Forum, and Senior Advisor and a member of the Finance Group at Bae, Kim & Lee LLC (BKL). He also serves as Chairman of the Board of the Korea Center for International Finance (KCIF).

Mr. Hur had been a career technocrat in the Ministry of Finance and Economy, and also worked as Senior Economist at both the IMF and the World Bank.

Mr. Hur served as Secretary for National Agenda of the Office of President (Blue House), 1st Vice Minister of Strategy and Finance, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Korea to OECD (Paris, France). He also served as Advisory Panel of AMRO Advisory Committee in Singapore.

Mr. Hur has extensive experience in policy making and implementation, as well as relevant knowledge in, among other things, Korean economy, international economy, and international finance.

Tae-hyun Kim is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of National Pension Service.

He began his career in the Ministry of Finance and Economy in 1994, undertaking a range of postings covering securities policy and financial policy. From 2008 to 2021, Mr. Kim held a number of senior financial policy positions at Financial Services Commission, including Secretary General, Standing Commissioner, Director General of Financial Policy Bureau, Director General of Financial Services Bureau, and Director General of Capital Markets Bureau. Prior to joining NPS in September 2022, he was the Chairman and President of Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation.

He holds a Bachelor and Master of Business Administration from Seoul National University.

Aditya Monappa is Global Head of the Multi-Asset Business Development team. In this role, he leads a team of investment and product strategists who engage with clients to represent market views and investment strategies for AB's Multi-Asset Solutions (MAS) business. Monappa is also involved in setting the strategic priorities and goals for the global MAS business. Prior to joining the firm in 2018, he was head of Asset Allocation & Portfolio Solutions for Standard Chartered Bank. As part of that role, Monappa was responsible for the design of global asset-allocation models and multi-asset-class portfolio solutions for both the private and priority segments. He was a key member of the bank's Global Investment Council and also acted as an advisor to the Discretionary Portfolio Management division. Previously, Monappa was head of Wealth Management Analytics for RiskMetrics Group, responsible for its asset allocation and portfolio construction offering. Prior to RiskMetrics, he worked with J.P. Morgan, first in the Investment Management division, followed by three years with J.P. Morgan Advisory Services, a division of J.P. Morgan Private Bank. Monappa holds an MBA from INSEAD and an MS in financial engineering from Columbia University. He is a CFA charterholder. Location: Singapore

Hoon Lee, the Executive Vice President of KIC, is the Chief Investment Officer.

Previously, Mr. Lee was in charge of KIC's Public Assets Division and Investment Strategy & Innovation Division. Since joining KIC in 2014, he has also led the Asset Allocation Group and the Investment Strategy Group

Prior to his tenure at KIC, Mr. Lee worked as an equity analyst at Korea Investment Securities, LG Investment Securities, and Samsung Securities. He also served as a portfolio manager at Macquarie-IMM asset management and Daewoo Capital.

Mr. Lee earned a B.A. in economics from Sogang University and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley.

Jang Huh joined POBA on Feb. 18, 2022 as a Chief Investment Officer. Prior to joining POBA he had been the head of investment division of Dongbu Insurance from 2013 to 2020. He was responsible for equities, fixed incomes and overseas alternative investments all across the sectors which can explain two thirds of DB Insurance’s total AUM. He began his career at TongYang Securities Co. in 1989, where he had served as an analyst and fund manager of domestic equities for 6 years including the role of Hong Kong representative officer. After TongYang, he joined Samsung Life Insurance and had worked for 10 years positioned as an equity fund manager in general account and a head of investment management team in separate account which covered variable insurance and corporate pension, including team head of separate account management at Samsung Asset Management Co. which is the subsidiary company of Samsung Life Insurance.

He changed to Prudential Asset Management Co. which was the asset management business platform of Prudential International (US) in Korea as an equity CIO in 2006. Prior to joining Dongbu, he had worked as a CEO of local asset management firm, Tempis Asset Management Co. for 2.5 years.

He obtained a BSc in Business Administration and an MSc in marketing at Seoul National University in 1987 and 1989 respectively.

As CEO, Euan manages and leads Newton’s business by establishing and developing appropriate business goals, that is both short term targets and strategic objectives to ensure that clients are well served, that the firm succeeds commercially and that it attracts and retains talented people. Euan is Chair of the Executive Management Committee and the NIM NIMNA Investment Oversight Committee.

Euan is a seasoned investment management executive with a background in macro investing. He started his career as an Actuarial Trainee at Scottish Provident to then joining Standard Life Investments (SLI) as an Inflation-Linked Portfolio Manager in 1995. Euan spent nearly 20 years at SLI where he was Head of Multi-Asset and Fixed-Interest Investing and was latterly a member of that company’s board.

Euan joined Newton from Aviva Investors where he was Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Aviva plc group executive team for 7 years.

Euan has a first-class honours degree in Physics from the University of Edinburgh and is a Fellow of the Faculty and Institute of Actuaries. He is also a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Wharton Business School, Philadelphia.

Outside of work, Euan enjoys spending time with his family, trying to keep fit by playing golf and running, and walking in the Scottish hills with his wife and deerhound dog and is an active member of his local church.

Joined Newton: 2021
Joined industry: 1992

Sungho Noh is a research fellow at the Korea Capital Market Institute (KCMI). His primary research areas are AI and machine learning methods with their applications in finance, macroeconomics, and accounting. At KCMI, where he joined in December 2022, he drafted several research articles and policy analyses on various topics including, but not limited to, implications of AI in the financial market, efficiency of the post-trading process, and securities lending market structure.

Before joining KCMI, he worked as a financial economist and later as a senior financial economist at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), a regulatory authority for public company audits, from 2018. At PCAOB, he supported various audit policy standard-setting projects and the reviewing of audit quality through economic and econometric analyses.

Sungho Noh holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a B.A. in Economics from the Seoul National University.

HongGon Kim is currently executive managing director of KB Asset Management and is in charge of the AI Quant & Direct Indexing investment division. As a fund manager with 28 years of experience, he has invested in global funds and Multi Asset-Multi Strategy using AI and Quant. He previously served as a proprietary asset trader at Samsung Securities and head of global investments at Allianz Global Investors. He holds a doctorate in engineering (AI Finance) and has served as an adjunct professor at Yonsei University Graduate School and a member of the Korea Exchange (KRX) Derivatives Review Committee.

Andrew Hendry is CEO Asia and Head of Distribution Asia at Janus Henderson Investors. In this role, his primary focus is to maintain, grow and diversify the distribution business across Asia (excluding Japan and Australia).Prior to joining the firm, he was head of distribution Asia Pacific at Aberdeen Standard Investments from 2018. He was a managing director at Westoun Advisors from 2016 and head of Asia Pacific, managing director with M&G Investments from 2011. Andrew began his career at The Capital Group Companies in 1998, most recently as director of global business development from 2002.

Andrew received his MA degree in economics and French from St Andrews University and an MBA from INSEAD. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and has 25 years of financial industry experience.

Dr. Choon KIM, Head of Policy 1 Division of the Korea Listed Companies Association (KLCA), is responsible for follow-ups on Korea's financial regulator's policies on local public markets and communicates them to all the listed companies of the markets, while proposing actions necessary to develop the local public markets to regulators. Dr. Kim also serves as director of the Korea Securities Law Association as well as member of the advisory council for corporate value-up at the Korea Exchange. Dr. Kim earned an LLB, LLM, and LLD from Sungkyukwan University, Seoul.

Semin Joo is head of AI Solution Department at Mirae Asset Securities. Also, He is an adjunct professor at Sogang University. He is a PhD in economics with engineering background, and has practical experience in AI/ML in various fields such as finance, manufacturing, and tele-communications. Prior to this, he led the SaaS development team developing enterprise-level AI solutions at Kakao Enterprise. He participated in various AI/ML projects as a project leader at KB Kookmin bank and LG CNS over 10 years. He started his career at LG Electronics as a tech researcher in 2003.

Chulhee Lee is professor of economics at Seoul National University. After receiving his doctoral degree from University of Chicago in 1996, he taught at SUNY Binghamton before he returned to Seoul in 1998. His major research topics are economic status and labor-market behaviors of older persons; interactions of ecological environment, socioeconomic status, and health over the life course, and causes and consequences of population change. Lee has been involved with the management of the NIH-funded Early Indicators project since 2001 as project leader and senior investigator, which constructed and analyzed longitudinal data on Union Army soldiers. He has also participated in various projects of creating and studying new data in Korea, such as the Korea Longitudinal Study of Aging (KLOSA), the panel data on the Korean Health Insurance, and the sample of military records in Korea. Lee’s research on the health and retirement of US Civil War soldiers has been published in American Economic Review (1998), Journal of Economic History (1998, 2002, 2005, 2008), Explorations in Economic History (1997, 1998, 2007, 2012), and Social Science History (1999, 2005, 2009, 2015). He has also published paper on retirement of Koreans in Economic Development and Cultural Change (2007) and Journal of Population Ageing (2013), and Industrial and Corporate Change (2023). His work on the long-term effects of in-utero exposure to violent events such as the Korean War and the 1980 Gwangju uprising and on the changing relationship between unemployment and health appeared in Journal of Health Economics (2014), Social Science and Medicine (2014), Asian Population Studies (2017), and Health Economics (2017). Based on the research, he published in 2022 a monograph entitled Early-Life Determinants of Health and Human Capital Formation: Evidence from Natural Experiments in Korea. In recent years, he has been working on various demographic issues in Korea, including the effects of parental gender norms on intra-family time allocation, long-term factors of health and standards of living, socioeconomic and policy factors of marriage and fertility, long-term consequences of population changes, and economic and policy issues related to immigrant workers, which appeared in numerous articles published in academic journals including Labour Economics (1999) and Migration Studies (2023). Lee served as a member of various government committees, including Presidential Committee on Aging Society and Population Policy and Presidential Committee on Jobs. He is currently leading the Population Cluster of the Institute for Future Strategy at Seoul National University.

Ji Heon Jeong was appointed as the Executive Director of Management Strategy Division of the Korea Exchange (KRX) in April, 2024. Prior to his current position, Executive Director Jeong served as an Executive Director from 2022 to 2024, taking office consecutively in the KOSDAQ Market Division and the KOSPI Market Division. He started his career in KRX in 1993 and his previous positions include Director-General of Human Resources Department, Director-General of Public Relations Department and Director-General of KONEX Market Department, among many others. Executive Director Jeong holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Korea University, Seoul.

Born in 1969, Changwha Lee holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Korea University and a Master's degree in Financial Engineering from KAIST. With a rich professional background, Lee has held various pivotal leadership roles within the Korea Financial Investment Association (KOFIA), including the Head of Management & Planning Division, Securities & Derivatives Services Division, and Securities & Futures Division. With a robust educational background and extensive experience, he is currently serving as Executive Managing Director and Head of Management & Real Estate Division at KOFIA.

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

Chairman, Korea Financial Investment Association (KOFIA) - 2023-Present
CEO & President, MiraeAsset Global Investments - 2016-2021
President of Marketing & ETFs Division, MiraeAsset Global Investments - 2012-2016
President of MiraeAsset MAPS Global Investments - 2010-2012
Head of Retirement Pension Promotion Division, MiraeAsset Securities - 2009-2010
President & Head of Retail Division, MiraeAsset Securities - 2006-2009
Managing Director & Head of Marketing, MiraeAsset Securities - 2005-2006
Joined DaehanInvestment Trust (Currently Hana Securities) - 1988

Others
Received a Governor’s Award from Bank of Korea
Selected as one of the Top 100 Korean CEOs, MK Economy - 2018-2021
Received a DasanFinance Award from Korea Economic Daily - 2018-2020

EDUCATION

Korea University (Master of Financial Management) - 2007                                          
KoreaUniversity (B.A. in Economics) - 1988

Education

• LL.M, Cornell Law School
• LL.B, Seoul National University

Professional Experience

• Director General, Capital Market Bureau, FSC
• Director General, Financial Innovation Bureau, FSC
• Director, Banking Division, FSC
• Director, Capital Markets Division, FSC