Minjung Kim

Senior Researcher, Sustainability

minjung.kim@fcinst.org

Minjung Kim is a senior researcher at Taejae FCI. Her work focusses on sustainability issues and global climate governance.

She has 7 years of interdisciplinary work experience in private and public/non-profit sector. In the private sector, she worked at startups including Twitter (Tokyo) and ATeam Ventures (Seoul) for about 3 years where she was responsible for data analytics, business development, and marketing. She has also led the winning team of TIDE Envision University (TEU), a community that seeks to solve future problems using exponential technologies.

In the public sector, Minjung worked at the Seoul Social Economy Center where she was in charge of the community care project.  One of her interest area is exploring ways to build a welfare state  with a money and banking system that enables a fair, democratic, and sustainable economy. Minjung worked as an associate at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub (Basel, Switzerland) Strategy & Operations team where she supported central banking community on financial and technological innovations such as central bank digital currency (CBDC) and green finance.

In the non-profit sector, she worked as a senior researcher at the Tokyo Investigative Newsroom (Tansa) on projects including the “Korea-Japan-Indonesia Cirebon Coal Power Plant Joint Investigative Reporting Project” with Newstapa and Indonesian media Tempo. Further, she has co-founded Solidarity for Monetary Democracy, a non-profit organization, and has been working as a member of the steering committee.

After graduating middle and high school in China, Minjung studied liberal arts and philosophy in Waseda School in Japan and the National University of Singapore (dual degree, B.A.), and political science and political economics from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE, M.A MSc). She is working in between India and Korea while attentive to international geopolitical changes. She has recently co-translated a book “Monetary Turning Point: From the bank money to CBDC” (to be published).