Life Summary
Oh Yeon-cheon is the President of the University of Ulsan. He is currently serving his third consecutive term, with his tenure set to run until February 2027.

He is strengthening the university’s status as a glocal (global + local) institution and is focused on building a model for regional and industrial co-growth.

He was born in 1951 in Gongju, Chungcheongnam-do.

He graduated from the Department of Political Science at Seoul National University. He earned both his master’s and doctoral degrees in financial management from the graduate school of New York University in the United States.

He briefly worked in public service after passing the 17th Higher Civil Service Examination, but returned to Korea after completing his studies in the U.S. and was appointed as a professor at Seoul National University. He served as Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration and later as President of Seoul National University. He was also the first Chairman of the Board of Seoul National University after it became a national university corporation.

He was a distinguished professor at Stanford University in the United States before being appointed President of the University of Ulsan.

Externally, he served as Chair of the Policy Deliberation Committee at the Ministry of Information and Communication, Chairman of the Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology under the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Chair of the Industrial Development Committee, and Chair of the Judicial Policy Advisory Committee of the Supreme Court.

During his presidency at Seoul National University, he led the institution’s corporatization process.

While he is widely respected as a scholar in the field of financial management, he has also been recognized as a university administration expert, having served as a university president for nearly 15 years.

He was appointed the first three-term president in the history of the University of Ulsan, having led the university into the Glocal University 30 initiative and improved its performance in global university rankings, thereby significantly raising its status and capabilities.

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