Yul Sohn is the President of the East Asia Institute and a Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) and Underwood International College at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Formerly, he served as President of the Korean Association of International Studies (KAIS) in 2019, Dean of GSIS from 2012 to 2016, and President of the Association for Contemporary Japan in 2012. Prior to Yonsei University, Sohn taught at Chung-Ang University and was a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and University of California, Berkeley. He was a senior fellow of the Fulbright Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Japan Foundation, and Waseda University’s Institute for Advanced Studies. Sohn contributed to various government advisory committees including South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, South Korean Ministry of Trade, Korean National Diplomatic Academy, Northeast Asian History Foundation, and Korea Foundation. His research focuses on Japanese and East Asian political economics, East Asian regionalism, and global governance, reflected in recent publications such as Concept War: Major Power Competition over Spatial Domination (2023), Global Political Economic Order After COVID-19 (2022, with Seungjoo Lee), and Japan and Asia’s Contested Order (2019, with T.J. Pempel). Sohn received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago.