Dr. Utak CHUNG is currently Adjunct Professor at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, teaching courses on SDGs and International Organizations and Global Citizenship Education – at Humanitas College of Kyung Hee University. He also serves as the Senior Advisor for Global Partnership Education (GPE) in Korea. From 2012 to March 2019, Dr. Utak CHUNG served as the 4th and 5th Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU), a UNESCO Category 2 Centre based in Seoul, Korea. As the Director of APCEIU, he had contributed to the adoption of Global Citizenship Education as UNESCO Education 2030 as well as UN SDG 4.7.
Prior to his position as the APCEIU’s Director, Dr. Chung served as Assistant Secretary General and Director of Strategic Programs Divisions at the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, where he started his professional career in 1982. Additionally, he was the Associate Expert for the International Commission on Education for the Twenty First Century of UNESCO Headquarters from 1993 to 1995 and served as a Visiting Scholar at Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego from 2000 to 2002.
Dr. Chung’s teaching career also includes his work as Adjunct Professor at Graduate Schools of International Studies at Sogang University (2002-2012) and Sookmyung Women’s University (2009-2012) in Seoul, the Republic of Korea.
Dr. Utak CHUNG obtained his B.A. in Political Science from Sogang University in 1981, MA in International Politics from Sogang University in 1986, and Ph.D. in International Organizations from Sogang University in 1999.
In 2022, he published a book titled “Global Citizenship Education and SDGs.”
