Wonhyuk Lim is a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management. Since he joined KDI in 1996, his research has focused on and family-based business groups (chaebol) and state-owned enterprises in the energy sector. He has also written extensively on development issues, in conjunction with 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. Dr. Lim was then at Brookings as a CNAPS Fellow in 2005-06. After returning to KDI, he became Director of the Office of Economic Development Cooperation. 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. Most recently, he served as Associate Dean at KDI School.
His publications include “Decarbonizing Electrification and Demand-Supply Balance: Challenges for the Electric Power Sector” (KDI, 2023). Improving Regulatory Governance (OECD, 2017, co-authored), The Korean Economy: From a Miraculous Past to a Sustainable Future (Harvard, 2015, co-authored), Global Leadership in Transition (Brookings, 2012, co-edited), and Economic Crisis and Corporate Restructuring in Korea: Reforming the Chaebol (Cambridge, 2003, co-edited). He received a B.A.S. in Physics and History and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.