Lee Ju-yeol (Hangul: 이주열; born 24 July 1952) is a South Korean economist and technocrat who was appointed Governor of the Bank of Korea, the South Korean central bank, on 1 April 2014. His tenure will end in March 2018.
Lee received his BA in Business Management from Yonsei University in 1977 and MA in Economics from Pennsylvania State University in 1988. He first worked at the Bank of Korea in 1977 and served as Senior Deputy Governor from 2009 to 2012. Afterwards, he retired to work as an Economics professor at Yonsei University.
Lee is married and has a son and a daughter.