Choi, Gong Pil

Director, Onther Digital Finance Research Institute

Dr. Gongpil Choi has worked as the CSO, CRO at the Woori Financial Group (NYSE:WF) from 2008-2009. He served as a National Intelligence Officer (Economics) for the National Intelligence Service from 2007-2008. His prior experience includes positions as a senior advisor and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Banking Supervision and Regulation, International Supervision in charge of MUFG US license approval from 2005-2006. He also had a series of visiting scholar appointments at UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, and the Santa Fe Institute from 2000-2001. Before joining the Korea Institute of Finance (KIF), where he has served on and off since 1994, he worked for Daewoo Research Institute and the Korea Chamber of Commerce. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a Ph.D. in Economics.  He specializes in open macro policy analyses with extensive quantitative techniques. Under the support of the World Bank, he developed the official prototype for an EWS for currency crises in the wake of the 1997 currency crisis. He is the recipient of the Maekyoung Economist Award for his work on the implications of the capital adequacy of Korean banks. He currently serves as a Senior Advisor at the Korea Institute of Finance and a director at the APCF(Asian Prime Collateral Forum), and academic member of the World Fintech Council.