Ambassador Park Soo-gil, prior to his election as President of WFUNA at the 39th Plenary Assembly in August 2009, served as the Republic of Korea’s Ambassador in the Kingdom of Morocco, Canada, to the European Office of the United Nations in Geneva and the UN in New York, from 1984 to 1998.
At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, in which he served from 1963 to 1998, Mr. Park has held such positions as Director-General of Treaty Affairs, Deputy Minister for Political Affairs, and Chancellor, the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security.
Mr. Park also served as a member of the Sub-commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, an affiliate body of the former Commission on Human Rights from 1999 to 2003. He is currently teaching at the Graduate School of International Studies, Korea University as a distinguished professor on the subject of international organization and the United Nations.
Mr. Park graduated in 1959 from the Korea University College of Law, and obtained a MIA degree in 1971 from the school of International Affairs and Public Administration, Columbia University.
<BR><BR>2009년에 열린 제 39회 유엔협회세계연맹 총회에서 회장으로 선출된 박수길 회장은 1984년부터 1998년까지 모로코, 캐나다, 제네바 및 뉴욕 유엔 본부에서 대한민국 대사를 지냈으며 1963년부터 1998년까지 외교통상부에서 조약국 국장, 정무실장 및 외교안보연구원 원장으로 있었다. 또한, 박수길 회장은 1999년부터 2003년까지 유엔인권위원회 산하 인권소위원회의 구성원이었고, 현재 고려대학교 국제대학원 명예교수로서 국제기구와 유엔을 가르치고 있다. 박수길 회장은 1959년에 고려대학교 법학대학을 졸업하고, 1971년에는 컬럼비아 대학교 국제관계 및 행정대학원을 졸업하였다.