CHUNG Byung Hwa 정병화
UNITAR CIFAL Jeju/Jeju International Training Center
UNITAR 제주국제연수센터
Director 소장
정병화 소장은 연세대학교 정치외교학과를 졸업한 후 연세대 행정대학원 외교안보 석사, 미국 메사추세츠대 정치학 석사, 성균관대 국정전문대학원에서 행정학 박사를 취득하였다. 1987년 제21회 외무고시에 합격하여 북미통상과장, 주 제네바참사관, 다자경제외교국장, 주 벨기에유럽연합 공사를 역임했다. 최근에는 주 슬로바키아대사와 주 뉴욕 총영사를 지냈다. 현재는 제주가 유치한 제1호 국제기구인 유엔훈련연구기구(UNITAR) 제주지역연수센터의 6대 소장으로 취임하여 지속가능발전을 위한 2030 의제 달성에 부합하는 아시아 태평양 지역 개도국의 정책역량강화 기여 역할에 최선을 다하고 있다.

Byung Hwa CHUNG received a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, M.A. in Politics from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Public Administration from Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea.

After joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea in 1987, he served as Director for North American Trade Division at the Bilateral Trade Bureau in 2003. Then, between 2005 and 2007, he served as Counsellor to the Korean Permanent Mission to the United Nations and International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland. Later on, in 2011, he worked as Deputy Director-General for Multilateral Trade Bureau, and as Director-General for Multilateral Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2013. In 2017, he was appointed as Minister at the Korean Embassy in the Kingdom of Belgium and Korean Mission to the European Union. He also served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Slovak Republic in 2018, and Consul-General at the Korean Consulate General in New York, U.S.A. in 2021.

He is currently serving as the sixth Director of UNITAR CIFAL Jeju/Jeju International Training Center to lead different capacity building programs aligned with the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region.