Jong-Soo Yoon
Head of Office, United Nations Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD
Jong-Soo Yoon is the Head of the United Nations Office for Sustainable Development, administered by the Division for Sustainable Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). He is the former Vice-Minister of Environment and an environmental expert in sustainable development. With over 20 years at the Ministry of Environment, he has focused on the establishment and delivery of policies through various projects in planning and budget, personnel management and other major tasks. Previous roles include Assistant minister of the Environmental Policy Department, Director General of Water Supply and Sewerage Bureau and Director General of the Waste Circulation Bureau, Director General of Air and Climate change Bureau, among many others. Yoon has also contributed at the international platform on environment as an Environmental Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations. He has also played a pivotal role for the successful establishment of the second National Strategy for Sustainable Development (2011-2015). Yoon has a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Seoul University.