General Information

Name

Lee Dong-phil

Address

Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. Government Complex Sejong,94 Dasom2-ro,Sejong-si,Republic of Korea 339-012

Telephone

+82-44-201-1001

Education

March 1971 - February 1974

Graduated from Daegeon High School

March 1974 - February 1978

Bachelor's Degree in Livestock Management, Yeungnam University

March 1979 - August 1981

Master's Degree in Economics, Seoul National University

January 1988 - December 1991

Doctoral Degree in Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri, United States

Major career

March 2013 - Present

Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

October 2011 - March 2013

President of the Korea Rural Economic Institute

June 1980 - March 2013

Korea Rural Economic Institute

August 1998 - February 2000

Korea Rural Economic Institute (dispatched to the Regulatory Reform Committee)

April 2006 - April 2012

Commissioner of the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Regulatory Audit Committee

June 2008 - December 2009

Subcommittee member of the Special Commission on Agriculture, Fisheries, and Rural Policies

October 2008 - July 2011

Member of the Presidential Committee on Regional Development Regional Development Expert Committee

October 2011 - January 2013

Member of the Commission on Regional Development of Rural Areas and Life Quality Enhancement for Farmers and Fishermen

November 2011 - January 2013

Member of the Central Agricultural, Fisheries, Rural, and Food Industries Policy Council

Awards

April 1999

Civil Merit Medal

July 2011

Order of Civil Merit, Camellia Medal