Jae-Yong Lee started his career at the Public Procurement Service in April 1995. At PPS, he was involved in establishing the electronic procurement system. After that, he moved to Samsung Electronics in 2011 and spent nine years there as a general manager and vice president of several business groups, such as the Bigdata Analysis Group and Online Commerce Group under the IT & Mobile Communications Business Bureau. Then, he worked at VAIV Company, specializing in big data and AI, from September 2020 to March 2023.
He returned to the public sector again, inaugurating as the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) president starting in May 2023. Jae-Yong holds a Bachelor of Economics and a Master of Politics from Seoul National University and a Master and a Doctor of Information Systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
As NIRS president, Jae-Yong is responsible for providing a digital government platform that is easy and safe for people to use and tries to make NIRS a smart cloud-specialized institution in line with the government’s core policy, digital platform government.