Jasper Kim

Jasper Kim, JD/MBA
Jasper Kim, JD/MBA: attorney, author, media contributor, professor, and Founder of Asia Pacific Global Research Group
Education	Rutgers University School of Law (J.D.) London School of Economics (M.Sc.) University of London (M.B.A.) UCSD (B.A./B.A.) Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation (Certification), Stanford University (Visiting Scholar), Harvard University (Visiting Scholar)
Occupation	- Current Position(s): Founder and CEO, Asia Pacific Global Research Group; Full Professor at Ewha GSIS; Director, Center for Conflict Management; Adjunct Faculty, Straus Institute of Dispute Resolution; Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley Law); Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law School - Former Position(s): Associate Counsel Lehman Brothers, Associate Director Barclays Capital, Invited Lecturer Supreme Court of Korea's Judicial Research and Training Institute, Law License: US Attorney (Washington, DC)

- Current Position(s): Founder and CEO, Asia Pacific Global Research Group; Full Professor at Ewha GSIS; Director, Center for Conflict Management; Adjunct Faculty, Straus Institute of Dispute Resolution; Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley Law); Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law School

Jasper Kim, JD/MBA is an attorney, author, media contributor, professor, and expert in international business law, negotiation strategy, and contemporary East-West issues and trends from a socio-economic and legal (interdisciplinary) perspective.

Jasper Kim was born in Toronto, Canada. He has lived in six countries, three in Asia (Japan, China, and South Korea) and three in the West (Canada, United States and England). His parents emigrated from Seoul, South Korea in the early 1970s. His early years were spent in Canada and the United States.

He attended the University of California, San Diego (BA, Economics; BA, Third World Studies), the London School of Economics (MSc), University of London (MBA), and Rutgers University School of Law (Juris Doctor, Law). He also received training at Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation. He was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and Harvard University.

Jasper Kim began his career as an in-house legal counsel for Lehman Brothers in Tokyo, Japan working on non-performing loans (NPLs), fixed income products, and structured products (including derivative products and ABS issuances). He was then recruited to work for Barclays Capital in Hong Kong, China, as part of the Investment Banking division's Structured Products Trading Desk.

Kim is currently at the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) at Ewha Womans University, in Seoul, South Korea. His courses include International Business Law, International Negotiation Strategy, and International Finance and Financial Institutions. He is also an adjunct faculty member for the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. He is also a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School, teaching in both the JD and LLM programs.