Jaesoo BAE was born in Republic of Korea in 1968 and serves as the Director of Forest Industry Division at National Institute of Forest Science (NIFoS) since 2018. Before that, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Forest Policies from Seoul National University in 1997. From 2005 to 2010 he worked as a governmental delegation of Republic of Korea at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), on behalf of forest fields. From 2010 to 2012, he worked as a Seconded Scientist at Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia, in charge of the NIFoS-CIFOR Cooperative research project. Also, from 2011 to 2016, he led a feasibility study on REDD project on the west protection forest management unit (KPHL Rinjani Barat) of Indonesia, as a Principal Investigator in Lombok, Indonesia. Since 2004, he has been granted an academic writing award (2004), an academic achievement award (2005), and Hyun Sin-Kyu academic award (2017) by Korean Society of Forest Science, Republic of Korea.


배재수 과장은 1968년 대한민국에서 출생하여 현재 산림청 국립산림과학원 산림산업연구과장으로 재직 중이다. 1997년 서울대학교에서 산림정책학으로 박사학위를 취득하였다. 2005년~2010년간 기후변화협상에서 산림부문 정부 대표로 활동하였다. 2010-2012년간 국제임업연구센터(CIFOR)에서 파견연구원(Seconded Scientist)을 역임하였고 2011~2016년간 인도네시아 롬복에서 REDD 사업타당성 연구 책임을 수행하였다. 한국산림과학회에서 저술상(2004), 학술상(2005), 현신규학술상(2017)을 수상하였다.