KAIST College of Business names new dean
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Prof. Kim Tong-suk
By Chung Hyun-chae
The KAIST College of Business announced the appointment of professor Kim Tong-suk as the new dean Monday.
“Our college has launched a full-time MBA program for the first time in Korea in 1995 and led local business education,” Kim said. “We will also take the initiative on global business education and represent a new paradigm in the future.”
Kim, 60, is one of the top authorities on finance engineering.
He published a number of theses in reputable academic journals including the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Banking and Finance and the Journal of Forecasting.
Kim graduated from Sungkyunkwan University in 1978 after studying business administration, and got an MBA degree from Santa Clara University in the U.S. in 1983.
Then he earned his doctorate in finance at Ohio State University in 1989.
Kim served as professor and studied at San Diego State University from 1989 to 1995.
He has served as professor at the KAIST College of Business since 1996. He became the first dean of graduate school of finance at the college in 2006.
Kim was president of the Korean Association of Futures and Options, editor of the Korean Journal of Futures and Options and chief member of the Derivatives Market Development Committee at the Korea Exchange (KRX).