Jay-Hyung Kim

Dr. Jay-Hyung Kim is an Economist at The World Bank.
He is alsoan adviser in the Governance Global Practice of the World Bank.
Since 2012, he has been working in areas of public investment management and public-private partnership (PPP) in various departments and units of the World Bank.
He served as co-convenor and steering committee member of the PIM Community of Practice.
His country experience includes substantive assignments for advisory and analytical works on Cambodia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Kenya, Mongolia, Romania, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe Before joining the World Bank, from 2000 to 2003 and from 2006 to 2012, he served as executive director of the PIM/PPP organization of the government of the Republic of Korea, the Public and Private Infrastructure Investment Management Center (PIMAC), which, according to the National Finance Law and the Public Private Partnership Law, is mandated to be responsible for supporting the management and supervision of public and private infrastructure investments of the government.
He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in economics from Seoul National University and a PhD in Economics from The University of Chicago.
He has been a fellow of the Korea Development Institute (KDI) since 1994.