Mr. Lee is currently working as a Senior Program Manager at the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) and on a leave of absence from his position at the Ministry of Strategy and Finance where he has served since 1998.
He was a director of the Planning and Coordination Team for the Presidential Council on National Competitiveness (PCNC) from 2009 to 2011. During 2008-2009, he was a Senior Deputy Director, International Economic Affairs Bureau (IEAB) at MOSF. Since joining the Ministry in 1998, Mr. Lee has been in charge of various policy issues related to economic cooperation and international financial policies. He has been participating in various rounds of Korea’s FTA negotiations with ASEAN, Japan, Mexico and others, especially in the fields of investment and trade in services. He was also a member of policy reform team of Korea’s ODA policies from 2005 and 2006. He also spent the 2007-2008 academic year as an Asia Fellow at the School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
Mr. Lee has diverse experiences with trade policy, foreign direct investment, Asian economic cooperation, keen knowledge on development aid, economic cooperation between two Koreas, multilateral development banks, and other issues.