2026 East Asia Cooperation Forum

SPEAKERS

Opening Session

EAST ASIA: Connecting, Sharing, and Prospering Together

PARK Yoonjoo

1st Vice Minister,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Republic of Korea

JIA Qingguo

Professor, School of International Studies, Peking University

HA Yong Chool

The Korea Foundation Professor, University of Washington, USA

[Session 1] Politics

Regional Security and Cooperation amid Strategic Challenges

PARK Ihn-hwi

Professor, Division of International Studies, Ewha Womans University

IIDA Keisuke

Senior Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan

WANG Yiwei

Director, Institute of International Affairs, Renmin University of China

LEE Jung-Nam

Professor & Director of Center for Chinese Studies, Asiatic Research Institute (ARI), Korea University

ZHAO Minghao

Professor & Deputy Director,
Center for American Studies,
Fudan University

[Session 2] Society

Demographic Change and Social Cooperation in East Asia

CHO Youngtae

Professor, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University

MU Zheng

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore

ONO Hiroshi

Professor, Hitotsubashi University Business School, Japan

HA Jung-Hwa

Professor, Department of Social Welfare, Seoul National University

GIANG Thanh Long

Professor, Faculty of Economics, National Economics University, Hanoi, Vietnam

[Session 3] Economy

AI, Industrial Strategy and Data Policy for Regional Cooperation

BAE YoungJa

Professor, Department of Political Science, Konkuk University

MANAGI Shunsuke

Distinguished Professor,
Kyushu University, Japan

ZHANG Bohui

Executive Dean,
School of Management and Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

BAEK Seoin

Associate Professor, College of Global Culture and Commerce, Hanyang University ERICA

SONG Junmin

CEO,
JACOPS Planning & Design Co., Ltd.

Closing Session

IIDA Keisuke

Senior Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan

JEONG Hanbeom

President, The Korean Association of International Studies (KAIS)