Jeong-Dong Lee

Jeong-dong Lee (; born 1967) is a Korean academic currently serving as the Special Advisor to the President on Economy and Science since his appointment by President Moon Jae-in in January 2019. He is a professor of Interdisciplinary Graduate Program on Technology Management, Economics and Policy (TEMEP) and the Department of Industrial Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea.

Education Prof. Jeong-Dong Lee got a Bachelor's, Master, and Ph.D. in engineering at Seoul National University.

Career His main research topics include firm dynamics, productivity and efficiency analysis, evolutionary economics, economics of technological change, etc.

He published five books and edited two, including Productivity, Efficiency and Economic Growth in the Asia Pacific Region by Springer Verlag in 2008. Lee also published more than 70 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, such as the Economic Modelling, Industrial and Corporate Change, Energy & Environment, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Scientometrics, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Small Business Economics, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Applied Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Technovation, Journal of the Operations Research Society, Mathematical and Computer Modeling, and Asian Journal of Technology Innovation. He served as the principal coordinator for the Asia Pacific Productivity Conference (APPC) in 2006 and 2018 as the president of Korean Productivity Association (KPA) in 2011, and as the president of Korean Corporation Management Association in 2017.

He has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK) since 2018. He served as an editor of science and public policy, Oxford Journal, from 2018. He has been active in providing consultations for the government and private sectors.

Honors and awards 신양공학학술상, 서울대학교 공과대학, 2011. 12. Awards for Excellence, Emerald Literati Network 2010, Emerald Group Publishing Limited SBS해외학술연구기금 수상, 2008. 5. 한국생산성학회, 학술상, 2003. 6. 부품소재기술상 (공헌부문, 장관표창), 2003. 11.