16th Korea-Canada Forum — Strategic and Technological Transformation in the Making: Challenges and Opportunities for Canada-Korea Cooperation
Co-organized by the Seoul International Forum and Canada’s Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), the Canada-Korea Forum meets annually to discuss key issues affecting the state of relations between Canada and Korea as well as to provide insights and forward-looking advice to governments, businesses and other stakeholders involved in the relationship. The Forum consists of a high-level group of Koreans and Canadians drawn from business, academic institutions and think tanks, as well as current and former government officials.
This year’s forum focuses on a range of issues, including the current US-China trade war that may trigger a gigantic transformation in international relations of the Indo-Pacific, including the Korean Peninsula. In addition, ongoing technological innovation, especially the development of Artificial Intelligence, combined with demographic changes and migration, and greater gender equality and roles for women could lead to other transformations. The forum will ask how Korea and Canada can turn these transformations into opportunities for cooperation.
Korean Speakers
AHN Choong Yong: Distinguished Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Chung-Ang University; former Chairman, Korea Commission for Corporate Partnership;
AHN Dukgeun: Professor, Seoul National University; Commissioner, Korea Trade Commission
CHO Hyun: First Vice Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
CHUNG Chong Wook: Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University; former Presidential Committee for Unification Preparation
CHUNG Jae-Ho: Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Seoul National University
CHUNG RaeKwon
HAN Sukhee: Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University; former Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Shanghai
JUN Bong-Geun: Department of Security and Unification Studies, IFNAS, Korea National Diplomatic Academy
JUNG Ku-Hyun: President, The Seoul Forum for International Affairs
JO Daeshik: President, Korea NGO Council for Development Cooperation; former Ambassador to Canada
KANG Minah
KIM Dalchoong: Professor Emeritus, Yonsei University; President Emeritus, The Seoul Forum for International Affairs
KIM Il-bum: Director, North American Division 2, MOFA
KIM Jin Hyun: Chairman, The World Peace Forum; former Minister of Science and Technology
KIM Jiyoon: Senior Research Fellow, Center for Public Opinion and Quantitative Research, Asan Institute for Policy Studies
KIM Sung-han: Dean, Graduate School of International Studies, Korea University; former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade
KIM Yoon: Executive Vice President & Head of AI Center, SK Telecom
LEE Hong-Koo: Chairman, The Seoul Forum for International Affairs; former Prime Minister
LEE Inho: Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University; former Ambassador to Russia and Finland; former Chair, KBS Board of Governor
LEE Jae-Seung: Professor, Division of International Studies, Korea University
PARK In-kook: President, Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies; former Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations
PARK Jin: President, Asia Future Institute; former Chairman, Foreign Affairs, Trade and Unification Committee of the National Assembly
YI Insill: Professor, Graduate School of Economic, Sogang University; Director, Nam Duck-Woo Economic Research Institute
YIM Sung-Joon: Senior Advisor, Lee International IP & Law Group; former Ambassador to Canada
ZHANG Byoung-Tak: Professor, Seoul National University
Canadian Speakers
Naomi ALBOIM: Distinguished Fellow & Professor, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University
Dan CIURIAK: Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation; Associate Professor & Reisman Chair in International Affairs, Carleton University
Michael DANAGHER: Canadian Ambassador to the Republic of Korea
Beatrix DART: Executive Director, Rotman Initiative for Women in Business, Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto
Leonard J. EDWARDS: Distinguished Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation; former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Global Affairs Canada
Elaine FELDMAN: Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa
Marius GRINIUS: Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute
Fen Osler HAMPSON: Distinguished Fellow & Director of the Global Security and Politics Program, Centre for International Governance Innovation
Gordon HOULDEN: Director of the China Institute & Professor of Political Science & Adjunct Professor of the Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta
Julia KIM: Retired VP & Investment Counselor, RBC Phillips Hager & North, Vancouver
Meredith LILLY: Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation; Associate Professor & Simon Reisman Chair in International Affairs, Carleton University
James MITCHELL: Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa
Lana NOVIKOVA: Founder and CEO of Heartbeat AI Technologies
Tina PARK: Executive Director, Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
Carole PIOVESAN: Lawyer & Co-lead of the National Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Management Group, McCarthy Tetrault
Ian SHUGART: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Global Affairs Canada
Carmen SYLVAIN: Strategic Advisor, QG100
Jane WILLIAMSON: Protection Officer, Office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Seoul
