위성락(魏聖洛)은 현재 국립외교원 겸임교수 이다. 35년간 외교관으로 근무한 그는 미국 관련 업무와 북핵 관련 업무에 다년간 종사하였다. 북미 국장 겸 6자회담 차석대표와 주미 정무공사, 한반도 평화 본부장 겸 6자회담 수석대표를 역임하였다. 그는 주 러시아 대사를 끝으로 퇴직하고 서울대 외교학과에서 객원교수로 강의 하였다.
위성락은 서울대 외교학과를 졸업하였으며 미국 캘리포니아에 있는 미 국방성 산하 DLI에서 러시아 관련 연수를 하였다.
저서로 ‘한국외교 업그레이드 제언’과 ‘새로 쓰는 러시아 리포트’가 있다.

Mr. Wi, Sung Lac is a visiting professor at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy.
As a retired diplomat with an over 35-year career in the Foreign Service, he had assumed many posts that directly related to North American Affairs and the North Korean nuclear issue. His assignments include the Director-General of the North American Affairs Bureau, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Korean Embassy in the US, the Chief negotiator in the Six-Party Talks, and the Special Representative for the Korean peninsula peace and security affairs, Most recently, he was the Ambassador to Russia
He studied international relations at the Seoul National University. He learned Russian studies from the DLI (Pentagon-run school in California).
He published books titled "A Proposal to Upgrade Korean Diplomacy" and "The Russia Report". The former is a policy proposal on the reform of South Korean diplomacy, the North Korean nuclear issue, and the four surrounding power relations. The latter is on Russian domestic affairs and foreign policy in the mid-1990s.