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 ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Council has appointed Gyung-Su Lee to one of two Deputy Director-General positions at the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ 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 ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Organization he was President of the National Fusion Research Institute of Korea (2008-2011).
Mr Lee has been closely associated with the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Project since 2007, first as Director-General of ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Korea, then as Chairman of the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Management Advisory Committee and, since 2014, as Vice Chair of the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Council, the executive body of the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Organization.
Read the press release here.