Life Summary
Chang Ho-sung is the chairman of the board of Dankook University.

He was born on March 28, 1955, in Seoul.

His father is Jang Choong-sik, former chairman of the Dankook University Foundation, and his grandfather is Jang Hyung, an independence activist known by the pen name Beomjeong, who founded Dankook University.

He graduated from Kyunggi High School in Seoul and earned his bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering from Sogang University. He later received both his master’s and doctoral degrees in electronic engineering from Oregon State University in the United States.

After serving as a professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Hanyang University, he moved to Dankook University.

He served as Vice President for Planning and Vice President of the Cheonan Campus before becoming university president in 2008, a position he held for 11 years. In 2020, he was appointed chairman of the Dankook University Foundation and was reappointed in 2024.

Though an engineer by profession, he has shown strong interest in sports, having served multiple times as head and deputy head of the Korean delegation to the Universiade. He also serves as chairman of the Korea University Sports Federation.

He previously served as president of the Korean Council for University Education.

He led the relocation of Dankook University’s Hannam-dong campus to the Jukjeon campus in Yongin.

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