SHIN Hyun Song 
Hyun Song Shin currently serves as the Governor of the Bank of Korea (BOK) and the Chairman of its Monetary Policy Board. He is widely recognized for his extensive expertise in economics, public policy, and finance, having worked in academia, international institutions, and government.
Before joining the BOK, he held several prominent roles at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). He served as Head of the Monetary and Economic Department from 2025 to 2026 and Head of the Research Department from 2014 to 2025, while serving as BIS Economic Adviser (2014-2026).
In Korea, he served as Senior Adviser to the Korean president in 2010, while on leave from Princeton, playing a leading role in formulating financial stability policy and shaping the agenda during Korea’s G20 presidency.
Academically, from 2006 to 2014, he was the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University. Prior to Princeton, he was Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics (2000-2006), having returned to the University of Oxford as a University Lecturer (1996-2000). Before that, he briefly served as Professor of Economics at the University of Southampton (1994-1996). He began his academic career as a Tutorial Fellow at University College, Oxford. He earned his DPhill (1988) and MPhill (1987) in Economics from Nuffield College, Oxford, and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, also from Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1985.
