Our Team

Lim Wonhyuk is a professor at the Korea Development Institute (KDI) School of Public Policy and Management. Since he joined KDI in 1996, his research has focused on state-owned enterprises and family-based business groups (chaebol). He has also written extensively on development issues, in conjunction with policy consultation projects under Korea’s Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP). 

After the 2002 Presidential Election in Korea, he worked for the Presidential Transition Committee and the Presidential Committee on Northeast Asia and helped to set policy directions for the restructuring of the electricity and gas sector and for Northeast Asian energy cooperation. Dr. Lim was at Brookings as a CNAPS Fellow in 2005-06. After returning to KDI in 2007, he became Director of the Office of Economic Development Cooperation, precursor to the Center for International Development (CID). He received a Presidential order from the Dominican Republic for his KSP consultation work. 

In 2010, Dr. Lim helped to formulate the G20 Seoul Development Consensus for Shared Growth. In 2013, he became Vice President and Director of Department of Competition Policy at KDI. In 2014-15, he served as the inaugural Executive Director of the Center for Regulatory Studies. In 2016-18, he served as the Director of the Global Economy Division and Chair of the KDI Publication Committee. Most recently, he served as Associate Dean, Office of Development Research and International Cooperation, at KDI School. He is spending 2020 and 2021 as a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS.

Dr. Lim received a BAS in Physics and History and a PhD in Economics from Stanford University.