Sang-Hyup Kim is a visiting professor at Graduate School of Green Growth, College of Business, KAIST and Chairman of Coalition for Our Common Future. Prior to joining KAIST, he worked at the Office of the President of the Republic of Korea in 2008 as the Secretary for National Future and Vision, where he contributed in setting the historic “Low Carbon Green Growth” vision for Korea. In 2011, he became the Senior Secretary to the President for Green Growth, coordinating the planning, development and implementation of Korea’s Green Growth strategy. Through collaboration with the Presidential Committee on Green Growth and relevant ministries, his agenda ranges from national implementation of Green Growth policies to international climate change negotiations and promoting global cooperation for making Green Growth became a truly global asset. He also served as a member of the Global Agenda Council. Kim was formerly the Washington correspondent for Maeil Business Newspaper and a Founding Member of the World Knowledge Forum and Vision Korea Project. He has also worked at SBS, Seoul Broadcasting System, during which he set up the Future and Vision Project Team in 2004, in addition to founding and serving in the capacity of the Executive Director of the Seoul Digital Forum. Kim has a B.A. and M.A. in International Relations from Seoul National University. He has been recipient of numerous awards during his career, including: Broadcaster of the Year; Korean Broadcasters Association (2007); Hongjo Order of Service Merit (2010); Hwangjo Order of Service Merit, Korean Government (2013)

김상협 교수는 ‘사단법인 우리들의 미래’의 이사장이자 KAIST 녹색성장대학원의 초빙교수로 역임하고 있다. 전 청와대 국정 기획실 미래 비전 비서관과 녹색성장 기획관으로 지낸 바 있다. 매일경제 워싱턴 특파원 (1997)과 세계지식포럼 창립 멤버 (2000), 다보스 세계경제포럼 글로벌 어젠다 위원회 위원 (2008), 글로벌녹색성장기구 이사(2010)를 역임하였다. 서울대학교를 졸업하고 한국신문협회 대상(2003), 한국방송협회 올해의 방송인상(2007), 홍조근정훈장(2010), 한국언론인협회의 자랑스러운 한국인 대상 (녹색성장부문,2012), 황조근정훈장(2012) 등을 수상하였다.