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