Kim Sang-hyup, 61, a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, will serve as the new director-general of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) starting Jan. 1, 2025. Kim will serve for the term of 2025-2028, as the current director general, Frank Rijsberman, will end his second four-year term later this year.
Kim brings to the GGGI a wealth of experience and a proven record of driving significant initiatives toward green growth and environmental sustainability. He is currently also serving as the co-chairperson of the Presidential Commission on Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth of the Korean government. Previously, he had been a senior presidential secretary for green growth under former President Lee Myung-bak and served as president of the Jeju Research Institute.
"I am delighted to welcome professor Kim Sang-hyup as the GGGI's new director-general starting on Jan. 1, 2025," said Ban Ki-moon, president of the Assembly and chair of the Council of the GGGI. "With the spirit of innovative and inclusive partnership, I will make the utmost efforts to achieve the goals and mission of GGGI and further its development," Kim said.
The GGGi was founded as a treaty-based international, intergovernmental organization in 2012 at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development..