Keynote Speakers

AHN, Moon-Suk

Honorary Co-Chair,
KFeG(The Korean Forum on Electronic Government) Advisory Board Chair

Professor Moon Suk AHN received B.A. in Economics and M.A. in Public Administration at the Seoul National University. He received M.S. in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Resource Economics at the University of Hawaii. He worked as a research associate for Dr. Norman Abramson who had invented the packet radio broadcasting system for data communications. He returned to Korea in 1977. After he served as the director of the software development laboratory of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), he moved to the Korea University to be professor of public administration. In 1999, he taught one course at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs as a visiting scholar. He worked as the Chairman of the Presidential Special Committee of e-Government during the Kim Dae-jung government. He successfully installed the Korean e-Government. He received the 1st class national medal from the Korean government for it. He also served as the Co-chairman (with the Prime Minister) of the Government Regulatory Committee. He abolished the unnecessary government regulations to half during his tenure. He was appointed to the Chairman of the Digital Convergence of Broadcasting and Telecommunications to promote the digital convergence in Korea. by President Roh Moo-hyun. He successfully designed the IPTV law and contributed launching the new Korea Communications Commission that integrates two separate government organizations of broadcasting and communications. Academically he had led the Korea Association of Policy Studies as the president, and worked as the president for the Korea Association of Science and Technology Studies. He received two National Medals from the Korean government for his contribution of building the e-Government and information infrastructure. French government decorated him a national medal of ARTS and LETTRE for his promotion of cyber culture and arts in 2008. He had worked as the Provost and Executive Vice President of the Korea University. And the Korea University became one of the most distinguished universities in Asia under his leadership. He successfully managed the centennial ceremony of the Korea University inviting more than 100 university presidents world-widely. He is currently serving as the board chairman for the Seoul Development Institute which is the think tank of the Seoul Metropolitan City government. He is also chairing the board of the Korean Local Government Information Development Institute which was established by the local governors and mayors. Until recently he served as the senior board member for the Korea National Informatization Agency. He is now serving as the professor of public administration at the Korea University. You may reach him at ahnms@korea.ac.kr and +82-11-9049-1426 (cell phone).

Imrich Chlamtac

Honorary Co-Chair,
President, CREATE-NET Research Consortium
Bruno Kessler Honorary Professor, University of Trento
URL: www.create-net.org
Email: chlamtac at create-net.org

Imrich Chlamtac holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota (1979). He received his B.Sci. and M.Sci. degrees in mathematics with Highest Distinction from Tel Aviv University (1977). Dr. Chlamtac is the President of CREATE-NET, a European research consortium. Dr. Chlamtac was recruited by the University of Texas at Dallas in Fall 1996 to build a bridge to Telecom Corridor, the largest concentration of telecommunications companies in US. As Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications endowed professor, the Director of CATSS, and Associate Provost for Research, he was instrumental in building up one of the largest industry-university partnerships funded through TexTec and other successful initiatives. Prior to joining UTD, Dr. Chlamtac was on faculty at Technion - the Israel Institute of Technology, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Photonics Center. Dr. Chlamtac holds several honorary appointments including the Bruno Kessler Honorary Professor, University of Trento, Italy, the Sackler Professorship at Tel Aviv University, Honorary Professorship at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, the “University Professorship” at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE), Hungary, a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Honorary Membership of the BUTE Senate. Dr. Chlamtac is the co-founder and past President of Consip, the first network emulator company, and of BCN, one of the largest system integrator companies in central Europe. In 1993 Dr. Chlamtac was elected Fellow of the IEEE for his work on ad-hoc access protocols and in 1997 he became a Fellow of the ACM for introducing the concept of lightpaths, the foundation for today's optical WDM networks. In 1994 he received the Fulbright Scholarship. He is the 2001 recipient of the ACM Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research on Mobility and the 2002 recipient of the IEEE Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Wireless Personal Communications. Dr. Chlamtac is a winner of the New Talents in Simulations Award from the Society of Computer Simulation for the concept of network emulators (1980) and the recipient of multiple ACM and an SPIE best paper awards. He has lectured worldwide as IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (1993 and 2000-2001), and was the plenary and keynote speaker at leading conferences. Between 1990 and 2004 Dr. Chlamtac has secured research funding as principal investigator of over $25M in USA and since 2004 was instrumental in raising over $20M at CREATE-NET in Europe. During 1997-2004 Dr. Chlamtac lead highly successful corporate funding activities through CATTS and TexTech centers. He has graduated over thirty PhD students and published over four hundred refereed journal and conference articles. He is the co-author of multiple Books, Book and Encyclopedias Chapters, including the first textbook on LAN-s entitled “Local Networks: Motivation, Technology and Performance” (1980), “Wireless and Mobile Network Architectures”, (John Wiley & Sons 2000), the latter an IEEE Network Editor's choice, as well as Amazon.com engineering books best-seller, and “Broadband Services to Businesses and Communities” (John Wiley & Sons 2004). Dr. Chlamtac is listed in ISIHighlyCited.Com among 250 most cited Computer Science researchers worldwide. Dr. Chlamtac is the founding Editor in Chief of the ACM/Springer Wireless Networks (WINET), the ACM/Springer Journal on Special Topics in Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET). He served as EiC of the SPIE Optical Magazine and was on the editorial boards and advisory boards of IEEE Transactions on Communications, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, High Speed Networks Journal, Telecommunication Systems, the Photonic Network Communications Journal and the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications. Dr. Chlamtac was the General Chair of leading ACM and IEEE conferences and is also the founder and Steering Committee Chair of ACM/IEEE MobiCom, the world premier conference on mobility. Dr. Chlamtac is the founder and past Chairman of ACM SigMobile, the Special Interest Group on Mobile Computing and Networking.

Kim, Seang-Tae

President, National Information Society Agency(NIA)

Education
● 1974: graduated from Kyung-Nam Highschool
● 1982: BA in English, Seoul National University
● 1985: MA in Politics, University of Wisconsin - Madison
● 1989: PhD in Public Administration, University of Georgia
Experiences
● 1991.3 ~ 2000.2: Associate Professor, Chungnam National University
● 1993.3 ~ 2002.2: President of Korea Association of Regional Informatization
● 1993 ~ 2000: Policy Advisor to Chungcheongnam-do Provincial Government
● 1995 ~ 1996: Chairman & Member, Council of the Pilot Project of Korea Information Infrastructure
● 1995 ~ 1998: Senior Advisor, Institute for Information Technology Advancement
● 1995 ~ 1998: Member of Korea Association for Public Administration
● 1996 ~ 1998: Member of Coordination Committee for Information and Communication Network Plan
● 1996 ~ 1998: President of ICT Policy Working Group, Korea Association for Policy Studies
● 1997 ~ 1999: Member of Korea Association for Policy Studies
Member of Korea Association for Policy Analysis and Evaluation
● 1997 ~ 2000: Member of Council for Balanced Regional Development
● 1997 ~ 2000: Member of Informatization Promotion Council, Chungcheongnam-do
● 1998 ~ 2004: Member of Informatization Promotion Advisory Committee, Office of the Prime Minister
● 1999 ~ 2003: Member of Informatization Project Evaluation Committee, National Computerization Agency
● 2000.11 ~ 2001.2: Member of Public Sector Management Inspection and Evaluation Team, Government Innovation Committee
● 2001.2 ~ 2003.1: Member of Special Committee for e‐Government (Advising body to the President)
● 2001 ~ 2002: Non-permanent member of Autonomous Informatization Foundation
● 2002.3 ~ 2008.5: President of Global e-Policy and e-Government Institute
● 2002 ~ 2003: Representative of Korean government, e-Government Project Seminar, Public Management Service, OECD
● 2003.3 ~ 2003.7: Member of Joint Evaluation Committee for Local Governments, Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs
● 2003.3 ~ 2008.5: Professor of Public Administration, Sung Kyun Kwan University
● 2003: Advisor to Organizing Committee for APEC High-level Symposium on e-Government
● 2004 ~ 2005: Member of Personnel Committee 1, Seoul Metropolitan Government
● 2005.9 ~ 2008.5: Dean of Graduate School of Governance / Graduate School of Public Administration
● 2006 ~ 2007: Policy Advisor to Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion
● 2007: President of Judging Committee for Appointing Director of Information System Planning Bureau
● 2007.2 ~ 2008.1: Adjunct Professor of Central Officials’ Training Institute
● 2007.12 ~ 2008.2: Advisor to Presidential Transition Committee
● 2008.5 ~ present: President of the National Information Society Agency
● 2008 ~ present: President of Future Politics and Governance Committee, World Future Society Forum
● 2007.6 ~ present: President of International Research Cooperation Facilitation Committee, Korea Research Foundation
● 2007 ~ present President of National Future Policy Institute of National Future Policy Forum
● 2005 ~ present: Policy Advisor to Committee on Science, Technology, Information and Telecommunication, National Assembly
● 2003.3 ~ present: Chairman of Committee of World e‐Government Award and Challenge
● 2003 ~ present: Member of Evaluation Committee, Civil Service Commission
Honors and Awards
● 2003.2: Red Stripes Service Merit Medal
● 1998.12: Best Thesis Award, Korea Association for Policy Studies

Mihaela Ulieru

General Co-Chair, ICST International Advisory Board Chair,
Canada Research Chair in Adaptive Information Infrastructures for the eSociety
Director, Adaptive Risk Management Laboratory
Professor, Faculty of Computer Science
University of New Brunswick

Professor Mihaela Ulieru holds the NSERC (Natural Science and Engineering Research Council – funded) Canada Research Chair in Adaptive Information Infrastructures for the eSociety in the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton since 2005 when she also established (with Canada Foundation for Innovation funding) and leads the Adaptive Risk Management Laboratory (ARM Lab) - HIRING!. Her research champions the concept of Emergent Engineering which challenges the traditional school of thought to find solutions to the management and engineering of complex situations and of large scale eNetworked techno-social systems and interdependent critical infrastructures. The concept is being currently applied to the development of holistic security ecosystems in her NSERC Strategic Project with Defense Canada - Enabling the SOS Network - aiming to improve first responders organizations interactions such that they can optimally address and contain unexpected and evolving crises.
The broadness of her background and expertise enable Dr. Ulieru to tackle problems from original perspectives which require a high level of interdisciplinarity - such as the collaborative project on emulating the mind, recently coined in a book.

Career. Professor Ulieru obtained her PhD (1995) in computational intelligence applied to systems diagnostics under the illustrious supervision of Professor Rolf Isermann at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. Her academic career started as Lecturer in Computer Science and Information Systems at Brunel University, London, UK. A postdoctoral fellowship (1997) with Prof. William Gruver in the Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics Group at Simon Fraser University brought her to Canada where she was awarded the Junior Nortel Chair at the University of Calgary in 1998. She founded in 2001 the Canadian GAIN (Global Agents Integration Network) that joined the research efforts of 19 Universities and Research Institutes across the Country working together with the industry to develop intelligent web services for collaborative virtual organizations. Several international consortia were involved, among which the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Consortium and the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (now an IEEE Computer Society association) . Her main contribution as leader of this consortium was the Holonic Enterprise paradigm for modeling and analysis of targeted, response-oriented and short-living network-enabled hybrid organizational systems and the dynamics of their interdependent cascading effects under various conditions. In 2002 she founded (under contract of international cooperation with Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing) the Emergent Information Systems Laboratory at the University of Calgary which she led until 2005.

Leadership. Professor Ulieru is co-founder of the ICST IT Revolutions Forum and was General Chair of the 1st IT Revolutions Conference in 2008. She also co-founded the IEEE-IES Industrial Informatics Conference Series (INDIN) and was the General Chair of the 1st INDIN which she organized in Calgary/Banff, Canada in 2003. She was on the governing board of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) (2004-2007), and co-chairs the IEEE-IES Industrial Agents Technical Committee which she founded (at the time as a sub-committee) in 2003. (Her leadership within IEEE goes back to her PhD years when she was appointed by Madan Singh - then the Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society's President - to be in charge with the area of Fuzzy Logic on the Neural Networks Council, which in the meantime grew to become today's IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.) As Member of the IEEE'SMC Distributed Intelligent Systems Group she initiated the IEEE Workshop on Engineering Cyber-Physical Ecosystems. Most recently she was appointed as Editor In Chief of the International ICST Transactions on EnergyWeb.

Expertise. Professor Ulieru is an expert in distributed intelligent systems, topic on which she is a frequent Keynote and Tutorial speaker as well as distinguished visiting professor internationally (Technical University of Vienna, Austria; Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh; UC San Diego; Stevens Institute of Technology, NYC, USA; University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris, France; Chinese Academy of Science, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Melbourne University, RMIT and University of New South Wales, Australia), McGill University, Queen's University, University of Ottawa. She has appointments on several national and international advisory boards and review panels among which the Scientific Council of the EU NCE I*PROMS, the Machine Intelligence Research Consortium and the EU FP7 PERADA, , expert on the EU Framework Programme , Australia's Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute and several Canadian Advisory Boards. Past appointments include: the Singapore A*STAR Advisory Board, the NSERC International Strategy Advisory Panel and Strategic Projects Review Panels on Safety and Security and ICT as well as the US National Science Foundation Cyber-Systems Review Panel.

Along her career she raised her two boys (George - 1987 and Mircea - 1989) as single parent. She is a native of Romania.

Lee, Bae-Young

KFeG Advisory Co-Chair,
President of Ewha Womans University

Dr. Bae-Yong Lee is currently the president of the world's largest women's university, Ewha Womans University, established in 1886 in Seoul, Korea. President Lee received her B.A. (1969) and M.A. (1971) at the College of Liberal Arts, Ewha Womans University, in the field of History. After her studies at Ewha Womans University, she received her Ph.D. in Literature at Sogang University. Since 1985, President Lee has served on the faculty of the Department of History, and has held various positions including the Dean of College of Liberal Arts, the Director of the School of Continuing Education, and the Director of the Korean Women's Institute. In August 2006, Ewha Womans University announced the appointment of Dr. Bae-Yong Lee as its thirteenth president.
With the motto "Initiative Ewha," President Bae-Yong Lee plans to bridge the East and West with campus networks worldwide including in the U.S., Europe, and China by 2010. The key objective of "Global Ewha 2010 Project" is to make Ewha one of the world's highest-ranking universities by upgrading the level of its education, research, and administrative infrastructure to that of world-class universities.
President Bae-Yong Lee is a renowned scholar in the field of Korean History and has held various positions including the President of the Association for the Study of Korean History of Thoughts (2003 - 2004), and the President of the Korea Women's Historical Studies Association (2004 - present). President Lee has broaden the horizon of the Joseon Dynasty's Modernization with publications such as, "A Study on the Mining Industry in Korea During the Japanese Occupation," Ilchokak, 1989, and "History of Korean Social Thought," Jisik Sanup Publications, 1996 (joint authorship). Through her writings such as "How Did Korean Women Live?" Chungnyunsa, 1999 (joint authorship), "New Women: Modern Korean and Japanese Women," Chungnyunsa, 2003 (joint authorship), and "Women in Korean History," Eojini, 2005, President Lee is recognized for having exposed the history and stories of Korean women to the public research arena at a time when the topics were hidden and shunned within the Korean society.
Apart from her academic positions, President Lee also is a Member of the 17th President-elect Lee Myung-bak's Advisory Committee, President of the Korean Association of Private University Presidents (2008 - present), a Member of the Municipal History Compilation Committee at the Seoul Metropolitan City (1999 - present), Member of the Cultural Properties Deliberative Committee at the Seoul Metropolitan City, a Member of the Cultural Properties Deliberative Committee in the Seoul Metropolitan City (2005 - present), and a Member of the Korean Human Resource Association (2007 - present). (Most recently, President Lee was appointed the President of the Korean Council for Presidents of Private Universities (KSPPU) in January 2008.)
President Bae Yong Lee, as a scholar in the field of Korean Studies, has contributed internationally with her numerous lectures worldwide. In January 1998, she lectured Korean Women, Yesterday and Today at the University of California. She has also given a serious of lectures on History of the Korea-France Relationship and Challenges and Prospective on the Reunification of the Korean Peninsula, and Understanding of Korean Culture at the Universtie Paris III, France in January 2004. In February 2004, she traveled to Tokyo, Japan where she gave a lecture on "Women's Wisdom and Power in Korean History." In July of 2004, she held a series of lectures, "History of Korean Thoughts, Korean Modern History, and Korean Cultural History" at Yanbian University, China. In November 2005, President Lee stood on the Japanese podium once again at the Fukujawa Research Center, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan and delivered an address, "Views on Women of the Progressive Faction in Modern Korea." In October 2007, she was invited to lecture at Harvard University while visiting the campus for the Inauguration Ceremony of Dr. Drew Faust. President Bae-Yong Lee has actively exposed Korea's history, culture and women to the international society with her outstanding record of public service and her unwavering commitment as a scholar.

Lee, Dal-Gon

Minister, Ministry of Public Administration & Security

Education
● 1987: Ph.D. in Public Policy, Harvard University
● 1985: Master in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
● 1983: Master in Political Science, East Carolina University, U.S.A.
● 1981: Master in Public Administration, Seoul National University
● 1977: Bachelor of Engineering, Seoul National University
Experiences
● Feb 2009 - present: Minister of Public Administration and Security
● 2008 - 2009: Vice Chairperson of the Korea-U.S. FTA Task Force, Grand National Party
● 2008: Representative Member of the Grand National Party, 18th National Assembly
● 2008: Member of the Special Committee on Ethics and the Knowledge and Economy Committee, 18th National Assembly
● 2007: Member of the Subcommittee on Legal Affairs and Public Administration, Presidential Transition Committee for the 17th President
● 2007: President of the Korean Association for Public Administration
● 2005 - 2006: Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University
● 2000: President of the Korean Association of Negotiation Studies
● 1998 - 2000: President of the Korea Research Institute for Local Administration
● 1995 - 1996: Policy Advisor, Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs
● 1987 - 1988: EEPC Research Associate, Harvard University
● 1985 - 1987: Fellow, Yenching-Harvard institute, Harvard University

Hwang, Sung-Don

General Co-Chair, Chairman of Standing Committee for KFeG,
Dean, Graduate School of Politics, Government, and Communication, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea

Education
● 1979: B.A. in Public Administration, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
● 1981: M.A. in Public Administration, Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University
● 1989: M.A. in Policy Analysis, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
● 1991: PhD in Political Science, Graduate School, University of Minnesota
Experiences
● 1995 – 1996: Secretary to the President of Korea on Government Reform
● 1996 – 1997: Secretary to the President of Korea on Social Welfare Policies
● 1997 – 1998: Representative Member, Society for Electronic Government, a chapter of the Korean Association for Public Administration
● 1997 – 1998: Member, the Presidential Working Commission on Administrative Reform.
● 1997: One of the Three Founders of the Citizens’ Coalition for Better Government.
● 1999 – 2005: Member, Editorial Board of an international journal, Information, Communication and Society, published by Routledge in England
● 2001 – now: President, Korean Research Institute of Electronic Government
● 2001 – 2002: Member, Presidential Special Committee on Electronic Government
● 2004 – 2005: Member, Committee on Electronic Government in the Presidential Committee on Government Innovation & Decentralization
● 2008 – now: Chair, Advisory Committee for Ministry of Public Administration & Security on Organizational affairs
● 2008 – now: Senior Vice Chair, Policy Committee, Hansun Foundation for Freedom and Prosperity
● 2009 – now: Vice President, Korean Association for Public Administration
Honors and Awards
● 2002: Red Stripes Order of Service Merit awarded by the President of Korea for his contribution toward Advancement of Korean e-Government

Jung, Taeck-Hyun

President, Korea Local Information Research and Development Institute (KLID)

Education
● State University of New York, M.A. in Public Administration
● Korea University, Master in Business Administration
Experiences
● President, Korea Local Information Research and Development Institute
● The head of appeals comission
● Head of the Secretariat, Central Personnel Committee
● A member of a standing committee, of appeals commission
● The Ministry of Government Affairs and Home Affairs, a planner of informatization planning bureau
● The civil service commision, deliberator of personnel management and policy
● The Ministry of Government Administration, department of administrative management, the head of administration and computation by computer department
Honors and Awards
● presidential award (superiority government employee)
● Red Stripes Order of Service Merit(meritorious for materialize of E-Government)