Associate Professor You-il Lee

You-il Lee is Dean of Programs, University of South Australia Business (UniSA Business) (with responsibility for the Management and Marketing program portfolio). 

Since joining UniSA in 2007, You-il has held various leadership positions, including Program Director of Master of International Business and Chair of the Research Committee at the International Graduate School of Business, Associate Head of School of Management, and Deputy Director of Australian Centre for Asian Business. 

You-il was President of the Korean Studies Association of Australasia from 2011 to 2015 and has had considerable experience in advising companies and the government on a range of Asian business environments, policy issues, and engagement with contemporary Asia over the years. He currently sits in the Board of the Australia-Korea Business Council (AKBC) Executive Committee. He is also a member of the Australia-New Zealand International Business Academy (ANZIBA), the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), the Academy of International Business (AIB) and the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE).

You-il is a political economist. His research on socio-economic and political changes caused by globalisation and regionalism in Asia has been published with leading publishers including Routledge, London Financial Times, Oxford University Press and Edward Elgar and in journals like European Journal of Marketing, Asian Perspectives, Management Decision, Journal of Contemporary Asia, International Marketing Review, and Asia Pacific Business Review. You-il's recent monographs include The Korean Economy: From Growth to Maturity (Routledge, 2019) and The Political Economy of New Regionalism in Northeast Asia (Routledge, 2018).

Executive Committee Member, Australia-Korea Business Council (AKBC)

President, Korean Studies Association of Australasia (KSAA, 2011-2015)

Member, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE)

Member, Australia-New Zealand International Business Academy (ANZIBA)

Member, Academy of International Business (AIB)

Member, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy Murdoch University

Work history

2017 March - 2018 March, Associate Head of School of Managment, University of South Australia (UniSA) Business School, Adelaide

2016 June-Present, Director, King Sejong Institute Adelaide, UniSA

2016, Oct-Nov, Visiting Scholar, Korea Institute for International Economics and Trade (KIET), Korean Government

2013, October, Acting Head of School of International Graduate School of Business (IGSB), UniSA 

2013, April-Nov, Acting PhD Program Director, IGSB, UniSA

2013, Oct-Nov, Distinguished Visiting Reserach Fellow, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), Korean Government

2012, Nov, Acting Head of School, IGSB, UniSA

2011-2015 President of Korean Studies Association of Australasia

2010–Present, Deputy Director of Australian Centre for Asian Business, UniSA 

2009–2010 Chair, Research Committee, IGSB, UniSA

2007–2012, Program Director, Master of International Business, IGSB, UniSA 

2002–2006 Senior Lecturer, School of Management, Edith Cowan University (ECU), Perth

2002 Visiting Professor, Chung-Ang Univeristy, Korea

2002 Visiting Scholar, Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA), Korean Government

1999–2001, Lecturer, School of Management, ECU

1999–2006, Under/Postgraduate Program Co-coordinator (International Business Program), School of Management, ECU

1997–1998, Research Fellow, Curtin Graduate School/Curtin Business School, Curtin University, Perth