Members

The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) has over one hundred members from eighteen countries across Asia and the Pacific, consisting of former political, diplomatic and military leaders, senior government officials, and scholars and opinion leaders. APLN aims to inform and energize public opinion, especially high-level policymakers, to take seriously the very real threats posed by nuclear weapons, and to do everything possible to achieve a world in which they are contained, diminished and eventually eliminated.

HWANG Yong-soo

HWANG Yong-soo

Professor for special affairs in KINGS KEPCO International Nuclear Graduate School

Hwang Yong-soo is President of Korean Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (KNMM) .

Yongsoo Hwang is a Professor for special affairs in KINGS KEPCO International Nuclear Graduate School. He is now working for establishing an international entity dedicated for nuclear nonproliferation in KINGS. He is also President of Korean Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (KNMM) . He is former President of Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control (KINAC) and Senior Vice President of Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI). He has served more than thirty years in the field of nuclear nonproliferation, spent nuclear fuel disposal and other options for the nuclear fuel cycle as well as international cooperation in the nuclear sectors. He served as a Member for Advisory Committee for the Korean Nuclear Safety and Security Commission(NSSC) and the 1st Public and Stakeholder Engagement Task Force Team to solve the spent nuclear fuel management issues in the ROK.

Hwang also served as an Advisory Member for the IAEA Director General for Multi-lateral Nuclear Agreement (MNA) to solve the Iranian Issues between 2004 and 2005. He worked as a Visiting Fellow at CSIS at DC between 2010 and 2012.

Hwang received his MS and PhD from University of California Berkeley, at Department of Nuclear Engineering and the BS from Seoul National University.