Short biography of Professor Jaeuk Khil
Prof. Jaeuk Khil has been teaching finance in the College of Economics and Business of Hanyang University at Ansan since 1995. He received a B.S. in Economics from Seoul National University, an M.S. in Finance from Iowa State University and a Ph. D. in Finance from University of Minnesota.
Prof. Khil’s main research area is the time series analysis application in the capital markets and the risk management area with the financial derivatives. He published more than 20 papers in leading international academic journals such as Journal of Futures Market, Asia Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Emerging Markets Finance & Trade and top Korean academic journals such as Korean Journal of Financial Studies, Korean Journal of Finance, Korean Financial Management Review. Prof. Khil has recently received the multi-year research grant, GRN (Global Research Network), from KRF(Korea Research Foundation). The research team, PRG(Pension Reserch Group), consists of 6 leading researchers from the top business schools in Korea as well as one prominent international scholar, Prof. Bong-Soo Lee at Florida State University. The topic of the research is the role of the financial market development in the pension industry under the aging society.
His academic service in the filed of Finance includes the President of KSA(Korean Securities Assocition), director of Korean Finance Association and etc. He has also served the academic community of Korea’s finance field as the editor of Korean Journal of Financial Studies.
He has also coauthored 3 text books in Korean, Financial Management, Personal Finance, and Principles of Business Management. He has also served for several public positions in the capital market in Korea such as Financial Supervisory Commission, Korea Futures Market, and KIC(Korea Investment Corporation), the sovereign wealth fund of Korea. He has recently served for the Korea Exchange as the Chairman of KOSDAQ Market Commission.