Mr. Yeongseop Rhee is a professor at the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), Seoul National University (SNU). He was a Jean Monnet Chair at GSIS, the director of SNU Institute for Research in Finance and Economics, a Senate Member at SNU, a research fellow at the Korea Development Institute (KDI), a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution, a visiting research fellow at the IBER of UC Berkeley and the SSI of the University of Tokyo, and a professor of economics at the Sookmyung University. He has served as the president of the Korea Money and Finance Association, the Korea International Finance Association, and the EU Studies Association of Korea (EUSA-Korea). He also served in private and public sectors, among others, as the Chair of the Board at Samsung Securities, and as a member of government committees including Steering Committee of Korea Investment Corporation, Financial Development Review Committee (Ministry of Finance and Economy), Advisory Group for the Korea-US FTA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade), Political Party Committee (Korea National Election Commission).

He received his BA and MA in economics at the Seoul National University and his MA in statistics and Ph.D. in economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written many books and articles on international economics, international finance, regional monetary and financial cooperation in East Asia, Asian currency crises, and the North Korean economy.