Dr. Gerald Pech and Dr. Jungho Baek

Dr. Jungho Baek is a Ladessa Hall Nordale Professor of Economics in the College of Business and Security Management (CBSM) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a non-resident research fellow at the DPRK Strategic Research Center at KIMEP University. His primary research areas include international trade, energy economics, resource economics, environmental economics, and econometric modeling. He has published extensively in these fields, with over 130 articles in international refereed journals. His current research on North Korea examines economic development strategies and the optimal allocation of development funds to support sustainable growth. He previously served as the inaugural endowed chair in Korea Economic Studies at the East-West Center and is the founding Editor- in-Chief of Commodities. ___________________________________________________________________ Dr. Gerald Pech is a researcher at the DPRK Strategic Research Center at KIMEP University and associate professor of economics at KIMEP University. He has a Ph.D. in Economics (Dr. rer. oec.) from Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany. Prior to KIMEP he held teaching and research positions at the Graduate School Bochum and Dortmund, the University of St Andrews, National University of Ireland in Galway, American University in Bulgaria and Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz. His fields of specialization are game theory, public economics and the economic analysis of institutions.