KF - VUB Korea Chair Launch Programme

Venue: Terarken Room, Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR),

17:00 - 17:25 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Karel De Gucht, President, Institute for European Studies (VUB) Lee Sihyung, President, The Korea Foundation Sonja Snacken, Vice Rector for International Policy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

17:25 - 17:30 CONGRATULATORY REMARKS Ahn Chong-ghee, Former Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the Kingdom of and the

17:30 - 17:50 KEYNOTE SPEECH Helga Schmid, Secretary General of the European External Action Service

17:50 - 18:45 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: SECURITY ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA - WHAT ROLE FOR EUROPE? Moderator Michael Reiterer, Ambassador of the European Union to the Republic of Korea

Panellists Kim Hyoung-zhin, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the European Union, Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Reinhold Brender, Head of Division , Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Pacific, European External Action Service Ramon Pacheco Pardo, KF-VUB Korea Chair, Institute for European Studies (VUB)

18:45 - 19:45 RECEPTION (offered by Embassy of the Republic of Korea) Biographies of the Speakers

KAREL DE GUCHT Karel De Gucht is a manitarian Aid. Prior to this, Mr. De Gucht Belgian politician held numerous senior political positions and the President of in the European, Flemish, and Belgian Par- the Institute for Eu- liaments. Mr. De Gucht was a member of ropean Studies at the Belgian House of Representatives from the Vrije Universiteit 2003 until 2009, during which time he held Brussel (VUB). Mr. De the portfolios of Minister for Foreign Affairs Gucht was the Euro- and European Affairs (2004-2009) and Min- pean Commission- ister for International Trade (2007-2009). er for Trade during From 2008 until 2009 he was Deputy Prime President Barroso’s Minister of Belgium. Mr. De Gucht is also second Commission, from 2010 until 2014. Professor of European Law at the VUB. He From 2009 until 2010 he was also Europe- holds a master’s degree in Law from the an Commissioner for Development and Hu- VUB.

LEE, SIHYUNG H.E. Lee Sihyung trade policies and trade negotiations as was appointed as well as establishing and implementing for- President of the Ko- eign economic and trade policies. Previous- rea Foundation on ly, after serving as Ambassador to May 13, 2016. He was from September 2006 until March 2009, he Ambassador and Per- was appointed Chief of Protocol in the Pres- manent Representa- idential Committee for the G20 Seoul Sum- tive of Korea to the mit in preparation for the hosting of the G20 OECD from May 2013 Seoul Summit in 2010. He joined the Min- through October 2015. istry of Foreign Affairs in 1980 and retired During his term, he in February 2016. President Lee graduated was the Chairman of from Seoul National University with a ma- the Audit Committee for 2 years increas- jor in International Relations in February ing transparency of the OECD work. Since 1979. He also dedicated 2 years, from 1990 February 2011 for 2 years, he was Deputy to 1992, to Russian studies at the Defense Minister for Trade in the Ministry of Foreign Language Institute in Monterey, CA. Affairs and Trade, being responsible for di- recting and coordinating Korea’s foreign

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SONJA SNACKEN Prof. Dr. Sonja Snack- recently broadened to other forms of (ex- en is Vice Rector for treme) institutional dependency. International Policy She participates in several international sci- and Professor of Crim- entific networks. She is a founding member inology, Penology and and was elected president of the Europe- Sociology of Law at an Society of Criminology (2004-2005) and the Vrije Universite- member of the ESC Working Group on Com- it Brussel (Belgium), munity Sanctions and Measures and of the where she held a ‘Re- ESC Working Group on Prison Life and Ef- search Fellowship’ fects of Imprisonment. She has acted since (2006-2016). She has 1994 as an expert to the European Commit- master degrees in law and criminology and tee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) and a PhD in criminology. Her research focuses was a member (2001-2012) and President on penality in Belgium and Europe, including (2006/2012) of the Council for Penological sentencing and implementation of custodial Cooperation of the Council of Europe. and non-custodial sanctions and measures. She was awarded the Belgian Francqui She has been involved in over 40 research Chair at the Université Catholique de Lou- projects, at a European, national and local vain (2008-2009) and the Ernest-John Solvay level, with a special emphasis on the integra- Prize for Scientific Excellence in the Human tion of an empirical social scientist approach and Social Sciences by the National Sci- with human rights concerns. Her interest has ence Foundation (FWO, 2010).

AHN, CHONG-GHEE H.E. Ahn Chong-Ghee he worked as lead negotiator of the Ko- served as Ambassa- rea-EU FTA negotiations on non-tariff-bar- dor of the Republic of riers. More recently, he worked as Deputy Korea to the Kingdom Minister for Economic Affairs just before of Belgium and to the taking up the Ambassadorship to Brussels. EU from April 2015 to During his stay in Brussels as Ambassa- November 2016. After dor he initiated the establishment of the returning to Seoul, he Korea Chair at the VUB. He studied French served as Vice Foreign Literature at Seoul National University and Minister until recently. continued his study of International Law As a career diplomat, in graduate school. He also studied Inter- he served in several foreign posts includ- national Relations and received a Master’s ing Washington DC, Geneva, and Shang- Degree (MSFS) at Georgetown University, hai. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he Washington D.C. served as Director for the World Trade Or- ganisation, and Director-General for the Bilateral Trade Bureau. During these years

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HELGA SCHMID Helga Schmid was EU, Mrs. Schmid was Head of the Political appointed Secretary Staff of the Federal Foreign Office in Ber- General of the Euro- lin and Head of the Minister’s Office from pean External Action 2003-2005, Deputy Head of the prior po- Service in 2016. Prior sitions from 2000-2003, Political Advisor to this, Mrs. Schmid to respectively Foreign Minister Joschka held a series of lead- Fisher (1998-2000) and Foreign Minister ing position in the Eu- Klaus Kinkel (1994-1998), Press and Public ropean Union Institu- Affairs officer at the German Embassy in tions. She was Deputy Washington from 1991-1994 and Assistant Secretary General for Private Secretary to the Minister for Euro- Political Affairs (EEAS) from 2011-2016 pean Affairs from 1990-1991. Mrs. Schmid and Director of the Policy Planning and holds an MA degree in English and Roman Early Warning Unit of the High Represen- languages, literature, history and politics tative for CFSP in the General Secretariat from Munich University (Ludwig Maximil- for the CFSP of the Council of the European ians Universität) and Sorbonne, Paris. Union from 2006-2010. Before joining the

MICHAEL REITERER Michael Reiterer Counselor (1998-2002). Before joining the has been appointed EU in 1998 he was Minister-Counselor at EU-Ambassador to the Austrian Permanent Representation to the Republic of Korea the EU/Brussels, Counselor at the Perma- in Seoul. Mr Reiterer, nent Representation of Austria to the GATT, who holds diplomas in Co-chair of the Joint Experts Group at the international relations OECD on trade and environment, WTO-pan- from the Graduate In- elist, Deputy Director General for European stitute and the Johns Integration and Trade Policy at the Austri- Hopkins University/ an Federal Economic Chamber as well as Bologna Center, previ- Austrian Deputy Trade Commissioner to ously served as Princi- West Africa and Japan. pal Advisor at the Asia and Pacific Depart- In 2005, he was appointed adjunct profes- ment, European External Action Service sor for international politics at the Univer- (EEAS) in Brussels; as EU-Ambassador to sity of Innsbruck. Time permitting, he con- Switzerland and the Principality of Liech- tinues to teach at various universities and tenstein (2007-2011), Minister/Deputy specialises in EU foreign policy, EU-Asia Head of the EU-Delegation to Japan (2002- relations and interregionalism, areas in 2006) and ASEM (Asia Europe Meeting) which he has published extensively.

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KIM, HYOUNG-ZHIN H.E. Hyoung-Zhin Kim Embassies in the of Ameri- is Ambassador to the ca and Ghana, and later on in the People’s Kingdom of Belgium Republic of . Throughout his career and the Grand Duchy Mr. Kim occupied various diplomatic posts, of Luxembourg, and among which those of Minister-Counsellor Head of the Mission of at the Korean Embassy in the United States the Republic of Korea of America; Advisor to the Minister of For- to the EU. He holds eign Affairs and Trade; Director General for a Bachelor degree in North American affairs; Secretary to the Economics (Seoul Na- President for Foreign Affairs and Deputy tional University) and Minister for Political Affairs at the Ministry a Master in Public Affairs (Princeton Uni- of Foreign Affairs. He has been serving in versity). Ambassador Kim also acted as a his current position since the end of Janu- Visiting Fellow at the University of Tokyo ary 2017. The Ambassador holds the title (Japan) in 2012. of Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order He started his diplomatic career in 1984 (UK). and held consecutive posts at the Korean

REINHOLD BRENDER Dr. Reinhold Brender, ber of priority issues in the domain of the a German national EU’s external relations, including on a post- and career EU offi- ing as Counsellor (Political) to the Europe- cial, on 1 September an Commission’s Delegation to the United 2017 took up the po- States, in Washington D.C. On secondment sition of Head of the from the he was EEAS Division “Japan, also the spokesperson of the “EU Pillar” Korea, New Zealand, of the U.N. administration in Kosovo. He Australia and Pacif- had started his career as a foreign affairs ic”. This followed his journalist, working for five years as staff posting to the EU Del- member of a leading German daily news- egation to Egypt from 2013 to 2017, as paper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Deputy Head of Delegation/Minister. Earli- He studied Political Science, History and er, he held responsibilities in Brussels for Languages in Germany, France and Swit- the EU’s bilateral relations with the East- zerland, obtaining M.A. and Ph.D. degrees ern neighbours, namely , Moldova, from Freiburg University, Germany. Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan and . This followed work in the European Com- mission, which he joined in 1995, on a num-

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RAMON PACHECO PARDO Dr. Ramon Pacheco positions at Korea University, the Lee Kuan Pardo is the KF-VUB Yew School of Public Policy and Melbourne Korea Chair at the In- University. Dr. Pacheco Pardo has been editor stitute for European of Millennium: Journal of International Stud- Studies (IES-VUB) and ies and currently sits in the editorial board of Senior Lecturer (Asso- EU-China Observer and Global Studies Jour- ciate Professor) in In- nal. His publications include the book North ternational Relations at Korea-US Relations under Kim Jong Il: The King’s College London. Quest for Normalization? published in 2014 He holds a PhD in Inter- and translated into Korean in 2016. He has national Relations from participated in track 1.5 dialogues with Ko- the London School of Economics and Politi- rea, China and Japan, given testimony before cal Science (LSE). Dr. Pacheco Pardo is also the , and is a frequent Committee Member at CSCAP EU and Korea media commentator on Northeast Asian af- Foundation Korea-Europe Next Generation fairs and EU-East Asia relations. Policy Expert alumnus. He has held visiting

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