CHO Youngtae (Ph.D) has been a professor of demography at the Graduate School of Public Health at Seoul National University(SNU) since 2004. Currently, he serves as the director of the SNU Population Policy Research Center. Professor Cho and his research team’s academic interests include the fundamental cause of the lowest low fertility in Korea, measuring and analyzing a new concept of population (presenting population), the impact of population dynamics on future market change, and demographic dividend issues for Vietnam and Indonesia. He achieved his Ph.D., specializing in demography, from the University of Texas-Austin in 2002. He served as a member of the Presidential Committee on Ageing Society and Population Policy, and a member of the National Economic Advisory Council.
Dr. Yi is the President of the Korean Peninsula Population Institute for the Future. Prior to her current role, she was a Professor of Graduate School of Economics, a Director of Nam Duck-Woo Economic Research Institute, and Vice-President for Public Affairs at Sogang University, served for Korean government as the 12th Commissioner of Statistics Korea. National Assembly Budget Office as a Chief of Economic Analysis Division, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Center for Finance and Tax, at Korea Economic Research Institute, Senior Economist and Team Leader of Financial Analysis Team, for Hana Bank Research Institute.