Jung Bumjin is the president of 'DMZ Peace and Life Cooperative' and the member of the 18th 'The National Unification Advisory Council' (economy department).
He majored in politics at Korea University and studied north korean economy at University of North Korean Studies (M.A. course).
He has been interested in inter-Korean economic cooperation, and expanding the cooperation for development to North Korea on basis of the experience of founding the 'Energy self-sufficiency and organic life agriculture' in DMZ and border area.
He has written the book titled As a new growth engines, Inter-Korean economic cooperation (2012), and journal articles including 'Development plan report on model village of DMZ biosphere reserve'(2015), 'A study on improvement plan of quality of life of residents on border area'(2016), and etc..


정범진은 현재 디엠지평화생명협동조합 이사장, 18기 민주평화통일자문회의 자문위원(경제분과)을 맡고 있다. 고려대학교에서 정치학을, 북한대학원대학교에서 북한경제를 전공했다. 남북경협, DMZ와 접경지역에서의 ‘에너지 자급과 유기생명농업에 기초한 자립마을’ 구축 경험을 토대로 북한지역으로 개발협력 구상을 확장하는데 관심이 많다. 저서에 『남북경협을 새로운 성장동력으로』(2012), 주요논문으로는 「DMZ 생물권보전지역 시범마을 발전계획 수립보고서」(2015), 「접경지역 주민의 삶의 질 향상 방안 연구」(2016) 등이 있다.