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Dr. Kim Jeong Won joined ESI in March 2019. Jeong Won has several years of research and project management experience before joining the ESI. She participated in writing several policy reports for South Korean government as a researcher at the Korea Environment Institute (KEI), implemented various international development projects serving as a project manager at the UNWTO ST-EP Foundation, and conducted a research on renewable energy policy and funding in developing countries as a research intern at the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). Her major research area includes renewable energy policy and climate change policy in national and local level, and she is particularly interested in vertical and horizontal policy diffusion among governments in energy and climate change sector. She holds a PhD in Energy and Environmental Policy from Green School (Graduate School of Energy and Environment), Korea University, a MPA from Korea University and a MPP from Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago.

Lee, J. and Kim, J.W. (2018). “Assessing Strategies for Urban Climate Change Adaptation: The Case of Six Metropolitan Cities in South Korea”. Sustainability 10(6), 2065. 

Senshaw, D. and Kim, J.W. (2018). “Meeting Conditional Targets in Nationally Determined Contributions of Developing Countries: Renewable Energy Targets and Required Investment of GGGI Member and Partner Countries”. Energy Policy 116, 433-443.

Lee, J. and Kim, J.W. (2017). “The Factors of Local Energy Transition in the Seoul Metropolitan Government: The Case of Mini-PV Plants”. Sustainability 9(3), 386.

Lee, C., Kim, J.W., Yeom S.C. and Kim K.N. (2017). “Global Competitiveness Analysis of Energy Storage System: Model and Index”. WIREs Energy and Environment 6(1), e235.

Lee, J. and Kim, J.W. (2016). “South Korea’s Urban Green Energy Strategies: Policy Framework and Local Responses Under the Green Growth”. Cities 54, 20-27.

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