Dr. Yeong Jae Kim is an Associate Professor at KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Adjunct Professor at KAIST College of Business, and affiliated scientist at RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE). The CMCC Foundation – Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, in partnership with Resources for the Future (RFF), the energy and environmental economics think tank based in Washington DC, launched the European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE). He has been a visiting professor at KAIST College of Business.

He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy (Environmental Economics) from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master in Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining EIEE, he was a senior researcher at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the U.K.

His main interest is in applied analysis, with a focus on the dynamics of innovation, technology transfer, green growth, and the economic impacts of environmental and energy policies. He is investigating how energy and environmental policy instruments affect the development and deployment of low-carbon technologies. He is particularly interested in an empirical analysis using state-of-the-art methods to examine the impact of environmental and energy policies on various metrics of innovation and economic performance. He has been involved in several U.S. funded and internationally funded research projects.