Previous Fora / 2011
MIN, Dong-Pil
Honorary Chairman, Seoul S&T Forum
Professor Dong-Pil Min recently completed 3 years of his chairmanship at the Korea Research Council of Fundamental Science and Technology (KRCF) which establishes the policies of 13 Korean government-funded research institutions as their common Board of Trustees. In 2010 he launched an international forum of public research institutes for science and science policy, Seoul Science & Technology Forum, to provide an arena for the serious discussion about global challenges and to start an effective cooperation against them.
He led the “Science and Business Belt Task Force” of the 17th Presidential Transition committee in 2008. Min previously held several leadership positions including vice president of Koran Physical Society, Chair of National Information Research Center Council and Director General of Korea Research Foundation. For the previous 28 years he was Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Seoul National University. Min received his Ph.D and Docteur-es-Science in Theoretical Physics from the University of Paris in 1976 and 1980 respectively.