KOREA WHO

Shin Jai-won is the President and Head of the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Division at Hyundai Motor Company.

He also serves as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Supernal, Hyundai Motor Group’s independent urban air mobility corporation based in the United States.

He is tasked with leading Hyundai Motor Group’s goal of commercializing Urban Air Mobility (UAM) within the next three years.

He was born in July 1959 in Seoul.

He graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Yonsei University and received a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from California State University, Long Beach. He later earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

He joined the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), where he served as Director of the Aeronautics Research Directorate at Glenn Research Center, Deputy Associate Administrator of the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, and later became the first Asian to lead the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate as Associate Administrator.

In 2019, he joined Hyundai Motor Group as Executive Vice President and Head of the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Division, and was promoted to President in 2020.

He is a Fellow of both the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAS) of the United Kingdom. He also serves as a member of the Drone Advisory Committee (DAC) for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

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