Professor Kim has more than three decades of experience in investment and financial analysis in energy and power industries, electric power economics and electricity market simulation, renewable energy and carbon market, smart grid and microgrid design and investment analysis, and optimization of power system operation and planning. He has been closely involved in the development and continuing evolution of the Korean electricity market since the late 1990s. Currently a professor at Pusan National University, Wook previously worked as manager of the Overseas Business and Power Trading Departments at Korea Southern Power Corporation and as an equity analyst of the utility sector at Samsung Securities, and has been involved in market developments for many years. Wook holds a PhD from Seoul
National University.