Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Family Affairs, Republic of Korea
Ryu Ho-Young is currently the the director general for Health Policy, Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Family Affairs, for the government of the Republic of Korea. He is also a professor in the Ministry’s Korean Human Resources Development Institute for Health and Welfare. Mr. Ryu is a career public servant having served as director general for Poverty Prevention Policy in the Ministry of Planning and Budget (2007); coordinator for Welfare and Women Policy in the Prime Minister's Office (2006), and as the vice head of the Planning Group on the Healthcare Industry of the Presidential Committee on Healthcare Industry Innovation (2005). Mr. Ryu has also been the director, Financial Management Reform Team, Investment Management Division of the Ministry of Planning and Budget, and served as the principal administrator, of the Budgeting and Financial Management Group, PUMA, OECD, Paris, France.
Mr. Ryu holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Seoul National University and a master's in public policy from Duke University, Durham, NC. He has completed course work toward a Ph.D in the Department of Public Administration, Graduate School, Sungkyunkwan University. During his fellowship, Mr. Ryu will research the effects of the socio-economic environment on healthy lifestyle.