Mr. Kim Hak-Su (2000 - July 2007)
Mr. Kim Hak-Su is the eight Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
Mr. Kim has rich experience in the public and private sectors, as well as in the international civil service. Mr. Kim’s career in government service includes serving as the Republic of Korea's Ambassador for International Economic Affairs, and as Secretary to the Minister of Commerce and Industry, and as Senior Research Fellow with the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy.
Mr. Kim’s background in government banking was as the London Representative of the Bank of Korea (the Republic of Korea's central bank), and as an economist with the Bank. Highlights of Mr. Kim’s private sector experience include achievements as Executive Director and President of Daewoo International Steel Corporation in New York, and as President of the Hanil Banking Institute in Seoul.
Mr. Kim has a special affinity for the Pacific, having served in the 1980s as United Nations Chief Planning Officer and Chief Technical Adviser attached to two Pacific island developing countries, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands. As Secretary-General of the Colombo Plan, based in Colombo, Sri Lanka (1995-1999), Mr. Kim revitalized the 24-member intergovernmental Colombo Plan for Cooperative Economic and Social Development in Asia and the Pacific, stressing human resources development and focusing on South-South cooperation.
Mr. Kim has a first degree from Yonsei University, Republic of Korea, a master's degree from Edinburgh University, United Kingdom, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of South Carolina, United States of America.
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