Soyeun KIM Position Professor Profile I received a PhD in Geography at King’s College London (2006). My doctoral thesis, The “greening” of aid: the political ecology of Japan’s bilateral international cooperation with the Philippines, was supported by a British government scholarship (Overseas Research Studentship). After completing my PhD, I worked as a Corporate Social Responsibility analyst at Ethical Investment Research Services (now Vigeo Eiris) (2007–2009) and as a lecturer in the Department of Development Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London (2007–2010). I later joined the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds as an Assistant Professor (tenured position) from 2009 to August 2014, before moving to Sogang University in September 2014. Office location #343, Dasan Hall E-mail soyeunkim@sogang.ac.kr

Current research interests

· historicising economic/development cooperation in Asia
· Japan and Korea’s economic/development cooperation in Asia
· the politics of development knowledge production in Asia
· decentring, post-colonial debates in the context of development cooperation in Asia
· new and innovative development finance in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals

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