Hungsoo Samuel Kim, a Korean national, is the Co-founder and President of the Center for Asia Leadership Initiatives. Passionate about nurturing and empowering talents in Asia, he has been actively engaging various stakeholders in developing and running over 25 programs in more than 22 countries in Asia to help emerging leaders explore opportunities to be socially responsible in facing the region’s complex challenges.

These programs fall under the Center’s four main initiatives, namely the Asia Leadership Trek, a public diplomacy arm for scholars at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and Fletcher; the Asia Leadership Institute, a leadership capacity-building arm; the Acumen Case Center, a research and content development arm; and Acumen Publishing, a publication arm. Hungsoo oversees these initiatives, along with a team of 20 comprising Faculty and Teaching Fellows from Harvard and Stanford University, and administrators at the main office in Boston, U.S., and the Asian regional headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.

As part of his continuous endeavor toward grooming leaders of tomorrow, Hungsoo recently joined the Asia Future Institute, a Seoul-based policy and leadership think tank, as Executive Director to instill in Korean and Northeast Asian talents the drive and passion to create positive social change through effective leadership. He prides himself on accelerating efforts to reach out to all 48 countries in Asia by 2022.

Hungsoo’s areas of research and training, among others, include ‘Negotiation and Mediation,’ ‘Adaptive Leadership,’ ‘Persuasion and Influence,’ and ‘Creative Confidence.’ To date, some 35,000 burgeoning and established leaders from the government, non-profits, and corporate world in Asia have benefited from these programs.

Prior to establishing the Center, Hungsoo worked for 12 years in varying sectors from strategy consulting and social entrepreneurship to international development, politics, and government. He has also served as a policy aide in the United Nations in New York representing Korea, and as a project analyst at UNESCO in Paris.

He currently sits on the board of two non-profit organizations, and has served as visiting fellows at the Asia Center at Harvard University and at the Kellogg School of Management in Northwestern University.

Hungsoo holds a Masters of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Masters in International Cooperation from the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University; and completed his undergraduate studies with two majors in U.S. and International Law, and International Politics with a minor in Economics from Handong University.

Previously, Hungsoo was the editor of seven books, namely ‘Rethinking Asia 1: Education and Innovation,’ ‘Rethinking Asia 2: Entrepreneurship and Economic Development,’ ‘Rethinking Asia 3: Social and Political Change,’ ‘Finding the Leaders in Us: New Goals for the Future,’ ‘Redefining Success: Learning to Lead for Change,’ ‘Next Generation Leadership: Empower Youth to Shape the Future of Asia,’ and ‘Leaders in Development: Enhancing Your Leadership Effectiveness in a Changing World.’<BR><BR>아시아리더십센터 대표. 하버드케네디스쿨 재학중 우리는 ‘어떠한 한국과 아시아를 만들어야 하고 이를 위해 어떠한 지도자들이 필요한가?’ 고민하던 중 하버드대 교수와 학생들을 대상으로 하는 공공외교 프로그램인Asia Leadership Trek을 도입하여 2012년부터 10회째 진행해오고 있다. 이와 함께 Asia Leadership Institute를 설립하여 하버드케네디스쿨, 비지니스스쿨, 로스쿨 등에서 가장 사랑받고 임팩트가 넘치는 수업들을 바탕으로한 25가지의 리더십 프로그램들을 개발하여 운영하고 있다. 이는 지난 3년간 총 22개국 60개도시에서 약 3만5천명을 대상으로 진행해 왔다. 2016년에는 리더십, 하버드교수법, 창의성, 기업가정신 및 팀워크 등에 관한 교육컨텐츠들을 연구개발하는 Acumen Case Center와 출판업무를 맡고 있는 Acumen Publishing을 설립하였다. 48개국 아시아를 품는 꿈을 키우고 있으며 현재 본부가 있는 보스톤과 아시아지부가 있는 쿠알라룸푸르에서 활동중이다.