Chung-in Moon is the co-convener of Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament. As Distinguished University Professor of Yonsei University, he is Special Advisor to the ROK President for Unification, Foreign and Security Affairs, Editor-in-Chief of Global Asia, a quarterly journal in English, and Krause Distinguished Fellow, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UCSD. He is Global Chair Professor of the University of Bath, U.K for 2018.

He has published fifty-six authored, co-authored, and edited volumes and over three hundred articles in academic journals such as World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and World Development and edited volumes. He was a Public Policy Scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center, a Lixian Scholar of Beijing University, and a Pacific Leadership Fellow at Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UCSD. He was executive director of the Kim Dae-jung Presidential Library and Museum. He also served as Chairman of Presidential Committee on Northeast Asian Cooperative Initiative of the Roh Moo-hyun government, a cabinet-level post and Ambassador for International Security of the ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He attended the first (2000) and second (2007) Korean summit as a special delegate. He was Vice President of International Studies Association of North America (ISA) and President of Korea Peace Research Association.