Kim Won-soo is the Rector of the Global Academy for Future Civilizations of the Kyung Hee University and was the chair of the international advisory board of the Taejae Future Consensus Institute in Seoul, Korea. Before that, he has forty years of diplomatic and policy experience which began in 1978, when he joined the Korean Foreign Ministry and then moving to the United Nations in 2007 after successfully leading the campaign and transition team for the newly elected 8th Secretary-General in 2006. Over the next ten years, he served as a senior-most official at the United Nations, above the level of Assistant Secretary-General. Most recently, he was the Under Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs from 2015 to 2017.