Sung Won Sohn

Sung Won Sohn
Born	1944 Seoul, South Korea
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Florida Harvard Business School University of Pittsburgh
Known for	Economist
Korean name
Hangul	손성원
Hanja	孫聖源
Revised Romanization	Son Seong-won
McCune–Reischauer	Son Sǒng'wǒn

Sung Won Sohn (born 1944) is a Korean American economist, noted for his skill in economic forecasting. He is currently the Martin V. Smith Professor of Economics at California State University, Channel Islands.

Sohn was born and raised in South Korea. He graduated from Gwang-ju Che-il High School in 1962. He came to the United States that year to study economics as an undergraduate at the University of Florida in Gainesville on a partial scholarship. He earned his Master's in economics from Wayne State University, and his Ph.D. in the same field from University of Pittsburgh. He also earned an PMD from Harvard Business School.

One of Sohn's Ph.D. advisors, Professor Whitman, left Pittsburgh to become a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors under the Nixon administration; she was so impressed by his work that she brought him on board as senior economist at the White House. On the White House Council, he was responsible for economic and legislative matters pertaining to the Federal Reserve and financial markets. His weekly economic and financial report to the President earned him attention from President Nixon.

A New York banker introduced Sohn to the president of the Northwest National Bank of Minnesota, where Sohn would move for his next job. He remained with the bank through various name changes and mergers, as it became Norwest Corporation and then purchased Wells Fargo in 1998, and rose to the position of Executive Vice President and chief economist.

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