KDI국제정책대학원에서 국제관계, 국제정치경제, 글로벌거버넌스, 정치발전론 등의 강의를 맡고 있다. 지난 20여년간 대학 및 대학원 학생들을 가르치는 동시에, 정책, 규제 및 국내외 정치-안보 상황 관련, 다양한 분야 외국기업들을 자문해 오고 있다. 그 전에는 외교통상부 통상전문관으로 통상교섭본부장 특보로 일했다. 외교관 입문 이전에, 워싱턴에서 한국경제계를 대변하는 통상 로비스트로 활동하였다. 세계은행 (IBRD) 연구원으로 동아시아 정치경제를 연구한 경력도 있다. 미국 MIT대학 정치학과에서 국제정치경제 전공으로 박사학위를 취득하였다.

At KDI School, Professor Byoung-Joo Kim teaches international relations, international political economy, global governance, and politics of development. Alongside his 20-year teaching career, he has been advising international businesses of various fields on policy, regulatory and political affairs, including inter-Korea affairs and strategic situations involving the Korean peninsula. Before this dual career track, he was a diplomat serving two of Korea’s trade ministers as policy counselor and special assistant, developing international economic policies. Prior to that, he had been a US-Justice-Department-registered foreign lobbyist representing Korea’s business interests in Washington. He started his professional career as a consultant researcher at the World Bank’s Economic Development Institute, specializing political economy of East Asia. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Department of Political Science, specializing in international political economy.