한경구 유네스코한국위원회 사무총장은 서울대학교(석사)와 하버드대학교에서 문화인류학으로 박사학위를 받았다. 강원대에서 인류학을 가르쳤고, 국민대 국제학부 학장으로 국제학부를 발전시키는 데 기여했으며, 2009 년에는 신설된 서울대학교 자유전공학부에 합류하여 학부장과 교수로 2020 년까지 재직했다. 한 총장은 유네스코 한국위원회 위원, 환경운동연합 정책기획위원회 위원, 대통령직속 지속가능발전위원회 위원 등을 역임했다. 또한 코리아저널 사회와 역사(Society and History), Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 등의 편집위원을 역임했으며 한국문화인류학(Korean Cultural Anthropology)과 한국사회과학저널 편집위원을 지냈다. 그리고 한국국제이주학회, 한국국제이해교육학회, 재외동포학회 회장을 역임했으며, 한국문화인류학회 부회장, 한국환경사회학회 부회장 등을 역임했다.

Dr. Kyung-Koo Han is the Secretary-General of the Korean National Commission for UNESCO. As a cultural anthropologist trained at Seoul National University (M.A.) and Harvard University (Ph.D.), Dr. Han taught anthropology at Kangwon National University, and helped develop the Division of International Studies at Kookmin University as its dean. In 2009, he joined the newly founded College of Liberal Studies of Seoul National University and served as its dean until 2020. Dr. Han has served as member of the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, the Policy Planning Committee of the Korea Federation for the Environmental Movement, and the Presidential Commission for Sustainable Development. He has also served on the editorial boards of the Korea Journal, Sahoewa yeoksa (Society and History), and Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, and was Editor of Hanguk munhwa inryuhak (Korean Cultural Anthropology) and of the Korean Social Science Journal. Dr. Han was President of the Korean International Migration Studies Association, the Korean Society for Education for International Understanding, and the Korean Society for the Study of Overseas Koreans, as well as Vice President of the Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology, and the Korean Society for Environmental Sociology.