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So Jeong Kim is a director of emerging security studies and a senior research fellow of the Institute for National Security Strategy (INSS). She advises the science and technology field of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a full-time INSS employee. She is also an adviser to the Korea-U.S. Cyber Security Working Group. Before joining INSS, she worked at the National Security Research Institute, South Korea’s government-funded research institution, from 2004 to February 2022 as team lead. Dr. Kim has spent 20 years working at the intersection of technology and policy issues of cybersecurity. She was involved in drafting South Korea’s National Cyber Security Strategy, published in April 2019. She was also involved in the fourth and fifth UN Information Security Group of Governmental Experts as an adviser. Her main research areas include international norm-setting processes, developing confidence-building measures, critical information infrastructure protection, law and regulations, and developing national cybersecurity capacity evaluation methodology. Dr. Kim has authored or coauthored various publications, including articles, reports, and academic papers. Her recent academic paper is about the evaluation of cyberattack severity and proposes a national response matrix. She has also recently contributed to papers for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the EU Institute for Security Studies. Dr. Kim received her PhD in engineering from the Graduate School of Information Security of Korea University in 2005. She earned a master's degree in political science and a bachelor's degree in history.