Life Summary
Lee Eog-weon is a nominee for Chairman of the Financial Services Commission.

He was born on June 8, 1967, in Seoul.

He graduated from Kyungshin High School and Seoul National University with a degree in economics. He later earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Missouri in the United States.

In 1991, he passed the civil service exam and entered public service. He worked at the Ministry of Finance’s Customs Bureau and the Ministry of Finance and Economy’s International Finance Bureau.

He also served as a Trust Fund Officer at the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), a regional development financial institution. Returning to Korea in 2009, he held positions at the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, including Director of Future Strategy, Director of Price Policy, Director of Human Resources Policy, Director of Comprehensive Policy, and Director General of Economic Structure Reform.

He was also Minister-Counselor at the Korean Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva. In 2015, he became the first Korean to be elected Chairman of the WTO Working Party on Domestic Regulation (WPDR).

During the Moon Jae-in administration, he served as Secretary for Economic Policy at the Presidential Office and later as First Vice Minister of Strategy and Finance. Afterward, he worked as a research fellow at the Korea Capital Market Institute and a visiting professor in the Department of Economics at Seoul National University.

In August 2025, he was nominated as the first Chairman of the Financial Services Commission under the Lee Jae-myung administration.

He is regarded as a traditional career bureaucrat and a macroeconomics expert with extensive hands-on experience in economic policy.

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