Jaemin Song is Director General for International Urban Development Collaboration in Seoul Metropolitan Government. She is also a liated with University of Seoul as an associate professor in Department of Urban Planning and Design. She specializes in climate change policy and planning, with interest in climate change resilient city, low carbon city and sustainable urban development in developing countries. She has built strong academic and professional capacity in the climate change eld, working as a research assistant at MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and a climate change specialist at the World Bank. She holds a BS and MS from Seoul National University in the Republic of Korea, and a Ph.D from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US.