Life Summary
Choi Kee-choo is the President of Ajou University.

He was born on August 22, 1961 (lunar calendar) in Sangju, North Gyeongsang Province.

He graduated from Wooshin High School and earned his bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Seoul National University. He received a master's degree in Transportation Engineering from the graduate school of Seoul National University and a Ph.D. in Transportation Planning from the graduate school of the University of Illinois in the United States.

After working as a Senior Researcher in the Urban Transportation Division at the Seoul Development Institute, he was appointed Professor in the Department of Environmental and Urban Engineering at Ajou University in 1994. He also served as Director of the Center for TOD-Based Sustainable Urban Transportation Research. He was elected President of Ajou University in 2022.

Externally, he served as President of the Korean Society of Transportation and as Chairman of the Metropolitan Transport Commission.

As a transportation engineer, he is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea.

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