Sung Deuk Hahm
South Korean professor
Sung Deuk Hahm (Korean: 함성득) is Executive Vice President of the Seoul Campus and Naun Chair Professor of Political Science and Law at Kyonggi University, where he was Dean (2021-2026) of the Graduate School of Political Studies. Concurrently, he is a co-chairman of the advisory committee of the World Gyeongju Forum (WGF), a follow up platform of the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) South Korea 2025.
He is a Korean political scientist, well known for his work on the Korean Presidency.
He has been a friend and adviser to every president from current Lee Jae-myung to Chun Doo-hwan. He is also the chairman (2002–present) of the Korean Institute for Presidential Studies, an independent research foundation which evaluates the presidential performance and the editor-in-chief (1999–present) of the Korean Presidential Studies Series of the Nanam Publishing House.
Education and Honors
He received his BA in political science and international studies from Yonsei University with highest honors in 1985 and MA in public affairs from the University of Texas at Austin with the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation Academic Excellence Award in 1989. He was a member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society. He received his Ph.D. in political economy from Carnegie Mellon University with the guidance of Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon in 1993.
During the completion of his dissertation, he was an assistant professor of public administration of the John D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics at West Virginia University as well as a research associate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Center for Public Affairs. He received the Raymond Vernon Memorial Award (with Mark Kamlet and David Mowery) for the best article in the 1992 Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
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