한인택 박사는 제주평화연구원 원장으로 평화와 번영을 위한 제주포럼의 집행위원장을 겸하고 있다. 제주평화연구원 연구위원, 연구실장, 제주포럼사무국장, 제주국제평화센터장으로 근무하였다. 국제협력의 증진에 있어서 민간전문가(Track 2) 외교의 역할, 특히 안보협력의 증진에 있어서 안보대화의 역할에 대해 관심을 갖고, 유럽과 동남아의 사례를 살펴보고 동북아에 적용하는 방안에 대해 연구해 왔다. 사이버안보와 공공외교에 관해서도 발표와 자문을 해왔다. 제주평화연구원에 부임하기 전에는 이화여대, 워싱턴주립대, UC Davis에서 강의하였다. 서울대에서 경제학 학사와 외교학 석사 학위를, UC Berkeley에서 정치학 박사 학위를 취득하였다.

Dr. Intaek Han is President of the Jeju Peace Institute (JPI), a non-profit, non-partisan peace research institute located in Jeju, South Korea. Dr. Han concurrently serves as the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity, a regional multilateral security dialogue that his institute annually organizes.

Since joining JPI in 2009, he has served in various positions including the Director of Research, the Director-General of the Jeju Forum Secretariat, and the Director of the International Peace Center Jeju.

Dr. Han has been conducting research on nuclear strategy (personal interest) and security cooperation (the mission of his institute) and regularly consults the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Korea Foundation on public diplomacy. He has served on the editorial boards of major journals such as The Korean Political Science Review and The Korean Journal of International Studies.

Prior to joining JPI, he taught at Ewha Women’s University, the University of Washington, Seattle and the University of California, Davis. Dr. Han received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley and his M.A. in political science and B.A. in economics from Seoul National University.