2nd Chairholder (2005)

Dr. Rhee received his BA from Seoul National University Law School, MBA from Rutgers University, and Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. He is holding the K. J. Luke Distinguished Professor of International Banking and Finance. He served as the managing
editor of the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal from 1993-2017, a premier academic journal
focusing on Asia-Pacific capital markets and financial systems. He is currently holding a
Chair Professorship at the National Central University of Taiwan and he served as adjunct
professor at Monash University (Australia) in 2011-2017.

He served as the president of the Asian Finance Association for a two-year period,
2014-2016. He was the founding president of the Pacific-Basin Financial Management
Society, an academic association created to promote academic research on the region’s
financial and capital markets. He also served as a board member of the U.S. Financial
Management Association. He served as Program Chair of the Annual Pacific-Basin Finance
Conferences, 1989-1997 and of the Asian Finance Association Annual Meetings, 2010-2012. He served as the chairman of the Asian Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (ASFRC) in 2004-2007.

He served as the dean (2008-2011) of the SKKU Business School in Seoul, Korea to
initiate various reform programs to upgrade its research programs while he was on leave from University of Hawai’i. During his tenure, he successfully led the SKKU Business School to be accredited by the AACSB in 2009. He was Resident Scholar (1997-1999) of the Asian
Development Bank. As Resident Scholar of the Bank, he spearheaded research programs on
Asian financial crisis, mortgage-backed securities markets, and government bond markets.
He was also involved with financial sector reform programs for Thailand, Indonesia, and Korea as part of the International Monetary Fund’s support packages. He was a key member of the Bank team which created a regional economic monitoring program and this program
eventually led to the creation of the Office of Economic Integration. He also served as a
visiting research professor at the Hitotsubashi University (Japan), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, University of Malaya, Renmin University (China), National Central University (Taiwan), and National University of Malaysia. He was the Tun Ismail Mohamed Ali Distinguished Chair in Investment and Finance of National University of Malaysia in 2005.