Ho-Jin Lee had been a foreign service officer of the Republic of Korea (ROK) for over three decades, and his career has covered the United States, Europe, and East Asia, specializing in the ROK-U.S. alliance, East Asian security, arms control and nonproliferation, and nuclear energy. He was most recently the ROK ambassador to Finland (2008–2010), and he has also served as ambassador to Hungary (2003–2006) and as ranking ambassador to the United Nations (2001–2003). In a personal capacity, he worked for the UN secretary general as a member of the UN Advisory Board on Disarmament for five years (2004–2008) and as its chairman (2007). Recently, he was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution (Foreign Policy, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies). His areas of expertise include Korean national security and foreign policy, inter-Korean relations, the U.S.-ROK alliance, East Asian security, arms control and nonproliferation, and nuclear energy.

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