Meredith Jung-En Woo

Meredith Jung-En Woo
Born	Seoul, South Korea
Occupation	President of Sweet Briar College
Korean name
Hangul	우정은
Revised Romanization	U Jeong-eun
McCune–Reischauer	U Chŏng'ŭn

Meredith Jung-En Woo (born 1958) is the director of the International Higher Education Support Program at the Open Society Foundation in London. She was previously the Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. She began her post on June 1, 2008.

Professor Woo was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, and attended an international high school in Tokyo, Japan. She came to the United States in 1976, and graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College, majoring in English literature and history (1980). She has received an M.A. in international affairs (1982), and Latin American studies (1984), and a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University (1988). Her dissertation was awarded the university's highest distinction. She is married to Korean historian Bruce Cumings of the University of Chicago and is the sister-in-law of former South Korean ambassador to the United Kingdom Yoon-Je Cho.

In 1996, Woo was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve on the Presidential Commission on U.S.-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy. She has consulted for the World Bank, the United States Trade Representative, Social Science Research Council, Asian Development Bank Institute, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, the Asia Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Japan Policy Research Institute, Santa Monica, CA, and the editorial board of the Journal of East Asian Politics. She additionally serves as an occasional guest expert on Korean politics for such media outlets as PBS, CNN, and The New York Times.

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