New Representative of World Bank's Korea Office
Beginning on August 6, 2018, Hoon Sahib Soh, a Korean national, will be the new special representative to the World Bank Group (WBG) in Korea.
“I am honored and excited to work on the Korea office. In my nearly two decades of working in the World Bank, I have always felt that more could be done to leverage Korea’s development experience, for the benefit of the global community,” said Soh.
Building on a successful partnership over the last four years, the World Bank and the Korean government agreed in April 2018 to a three-year extension of Korea’s support to the Korea Office’s expanded programs.
In the past two years, Soh was based in the World Bank’s office in Beijing, working as the program leader of economic policies for China, Mongolia and Korea.
Soh joined the Bank in 2000 as a Young Professional after receiving a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University and after working in the Korean private sector on corporate research and management consulting.