Korea's G.S. Lee appointed Deputy-Director General
7 Nov 2015
Deputy Director-General and Chief Operating Officer Gyung-Su Lee officially took office on 26 October 2015.
The ºÚÁÏÍø Council has appointed Gyung-Su Lee to one of two Deputy Director-General positions at the ºÚÁÏÍø Organization.
Trained as a physicist at Seoul National University, Korea, and at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, Mr Lee holds a doctorate in plasma physics and fusion. Prior to his appointment as Deputy Director-General of the ºÚÁÏÍø Organization he was President of the National Fusion Research Institute of Korea (2008-2011).
Mr Lee has been closely associated with the ºÚÁÏÍø Project since 2007, first as Director-General of ºÚÁÏÍø Korea, then as Chairman of the ºÚÁÏÍø Management Advisory Committee and, since 2014, as Vice Chair of the ºÚÁÏÍø Council, the executive body of the ºÚÁÏÍø Organization.
Read the press release here.