So-Young Lee joined IGES in 2013 after serving as a Research Professor at Korea Univ. and Pusan Natl. Univ. as well as a researcher of NGOs (Hansalim co-op, GAP, Consumers Union of Korea). She is (co-)author of 11 books and multiple articles incl. previous publications: Political Implication of Ecological Concerns and Movements (2012), Reconsidering Morris’s Ecotopia through Current Ecovillage Implementations (2012), Comparative Analysis of the Koreans’ Perception of Environmental Conflict (2011). So-Young specialises in Environmental Sociology and lectures on climate justice at Waseda and Beijing Normal University. At IGES, she focuses research on governance in sustainability transitions and climate social co-benefits for the underprivileged. Dr. Lee holds a Diploma in Sociology from LSE and a Ph.D from Essex University.
