Lee Dong-jin, policy aide to the Deputy Prime Minister at the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, has been nominated as secretary for growth economy at the Blue House, a post that had been vacant for seven months since the launch of the Lee Jae-myung administration. The role serves as the lead among seven secretaries within the Senior Secretary's Office for Economic Growth at the Blue House, assisting Senior Secretary Ha Jun-kyung and coordinating and overseeing the Blue House's economic policy operations.
After serving in the Research Department at the Bank of Korea and as a professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at Sangmyung University, he served as deputy head of the policy headquarters of the Democratic Party of Korea's election committee during last year's presidential election, designing then-candidate Lee Jae-myung's "growth" policy. Immediately after the election, he worked in the Economic Subcommittee 1 of the Presidential Committee on Policy Planning and, in September of the same year, was recruited as Minister Koo Yun-cheol's policy aide as deputy prime minister.