Director, Coordinating Committee for Geoscience Programmes in East and Southeast Asia Profile / Bio Profile / Bio Dr. Young Joo Lee is currently the Director of the Coordinating Committee for Geoscience Programmes in East and Southeast Asia (CCOP). He served as the leading project manager of Korea IODP (Integrated Ocean Drilling Project) from 2003 to 2008, and as the Executive Director of International Cooperation office of KIGAM from 2008 to 2012. He was also the Executive Director of Petroleum and Marine Research Division of KIGAM from 2013 to 2016, and the Executive Director of Global Cooperation Division of KIGAM from 2016 to 2019. He is now the Chairman of the Advancement Administration Committee on International Cooperation of the National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST). He obtained his Master's degree in Sedimentology from Yonsei University and got his PhD in Petroleum Geology from Chung Nam National University. Materials