President Lee Jae-myung on the 2nd appointed Song Kyung-hee, a professor at Sungkyunkwan University (head of the Artificial Intelligence Reliability Center at the Institute for Convergence of Artificial Intelligence), as Chairperson of the Personal Information Protection Commission, a minister-level post. The term of the current Chairperson, Ko Hak-soo, expires on the 6th, and the chair's term is three years.
Born in Goheung, South Jeolla, Chairperson Song graduated from Jeonnam Girls' High School and Chonnam National University's Department of English Language and Literature, earned a master's in public administration from Seoul National University, a master's in public administration from Harvard University in the United States, and a Ph.D. in business administration (technology management) from Yonsei University.
Having passed the 39th higher civil service exam, she served at the Ministry of Science and ICT as head of the Intellectual Property Strategy Planning Division, director-general for AI-based policy, and director-general for software policy, and headed the support team for the Presidential Commission on the Fourth Industrial Revolution. She is currently head of the Artificial Intelligence Reliability Center at the Institute for Convergence of Artificial Intelligence at Sungkyunkwan University.
Kang Yu-jung, Spokesperson for the presidential office, said, "At a time when personal information threats are growing alongside technological advances, Chairperson Song is the right person to establish a protection system that reassures the public and to lead the harmonious development of artificial intelligence and personal information protection."