17th Annual Dr. Jerzy Hauptmann Distinguished Guest Lecture

Hosted by The Hauptmann School for Public Affairs
Thursday, March 19, 2009
7-9 p.m.
Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel, Parkville Campus

Featured speaker: Pan Suk Kim, Ph.D., director of the Institute for Regional Studies and Development, and professor of public information at Yonsei University, South Korea.

Topic: "Building Trust in Government by Improving Governance"

Lecture video: "Building Trust in Government by Improving Governance"

Pan Suk Kim, Ph.D., is the first international lecturer in the history of the Dr. Jerzy Hauptmann Distinguished Guest Lecture Series. According to Erik Bergrud, director of the International Center for Civic Engagement and special assistant to the president for University projects on civic engagement, Kim is an international expert and leader in the public administration discipline and Park University is fortunate to include him in its list of distinguished lecturers.

Kim earned his doctorate degree in public administration from American University in Washington, D.C. He has been an assistant professor at Old Dominion University in Virginia and Austin Peay State University in Tennessee for several years. He has been an associate dean of social sciences and chair of public administration at Yonsei University (Wonju Campus). He is currently professor of public administration at Yonsei University in South Korea and also serves as director of the Governance Research Center of the East Asia Institute (EAI). In 2000, he was a fellow of the Japan-Korea Cultural Exchange Foundation and a visiting scholar at Waseda University in Tokyo.

Kim has served on the National Council of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and the Executive Board of the ASPA Section for Professional and Organizational Development (SPOD). He has been the president of the Korean Association of Public Personnel Administration (KAPPA) and an Executive Board member of the Korean Association of Public Administration (KAPA) and the Korean Association of Policy Studies (KAPS). He is currently a member of the Executive Board of the ASPA SPOD for the second time, the Korean Political Science Association (KPSA) and KAPS. He has also served as an officer in several social science associations in Korea.

Kim has been a member of the Administrative Reform Committee (ARC) and a working member of the Presidential Commission on Government Innovation (PCGI) in the Korean central government. He has also been a member of the Policy Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) and a member of the Management Assessment and Coordination Committee (MACC). He is currently a member of the Policy Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs (MOGAHA), the Korean Civil Service Commission (CSC) and the HRM Subcommittee of the Presidential Committee on Government Innovation and Decentralization. He is also a Governing Board member of the Korean Local Authorities Foundation for International Relations (KLAFIR). In the beginning of 2008, he was appointed by the President as a member of the Presidential Commission on Policy Planning (PCPP) and also appointed by the Prime Minister as a member of the Board of Directors in the Korea Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (KRCHS). Professor Kim has been a Fellow Rapporteur at the International Conference of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS), New Delhi, in 2002. Recently, he was invited by OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) to serve as an advisory panelist for OECD-PUMA’s Modernization Program.

He has been the editor-in-chief of the Korean Policy Studies Review published by the Korean Association of Policy Studies (KAPS) and a founding member and the editor-in-chief of the International Review of Public Administration (journal in English, formerly Korean Review of Public Administration) published by tKAPA. He is currently an editorial board member of several major international journals: Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, International Journal of Public Administration, International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior, Public Personnel Management, Administrative Theory and Praxis, Journal of Public Affairs Education, Innovation Journal, and Chinese Public Administration Review. Needless to say, he has served on the editorial boards of many Korean journals.

His coauthored books in Korean include New Public Personnel Administration, Administrative Reform in South Korea, E-Public Administration, New Organizational Behavior, Open Personnel Exchange in All Directions, Introduction to Public Administration in an Internet Age, New Korean Public Administration, Understanding Organizational Behavior, Korean Society and Administrative Reform, Korean Society and Administrative Reform, Government Reform and National Competitiveness, and Keys to a Successful Presidency. Also, he published Korean Public Administration in English. He has also written many book chapters and project reports on various subjects in the field of public administration and policy.

Kim's research has focused on public management reform, public personnel administration, and organizational change and development. He has published more than 100 refereed articles in Korea and overseas. His published works have appeared in major international journals in the field, including the Public Administration Review, Administration and Society, International Review of Administrative Sciences, American Review of Public Administration, Australian Journal of Public Administration, Public Performance and Management Review, Asian Journal of Public Administration, Asian Survey, Asian Affairs, International Journal of Public Administration, and other major international journals in the field.

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