Rudiger Frank is Professor of East Asian Economy and Society and Vice Head of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Korea University and the University of North Korean Studies (Kyungnam University) in Seoul. He holds an M.A. in Korean Studies, Economics and International Relations and a Ph.D. in Economics. In 1991/1992, he spent one semester as a language student at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang and has been researching North Korea ever since. Visiting Professorships included Columbia University New York and Korea University Seoul. He is a Council member and for the 2011-2013 period the Secretary of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE). He is Deputy Chief Editor of the A-ranked European Journal of East Asian Studies, co-editor of the annual book “Korea: Politics, Economy and Society” (Brill), Member of the Editorial Board for the book series “Brill’s Korean Studies Library”, an Associate at “The Asia Pacific Journal”, Member of the Editorial Board of “Korea Review of International Studies”, Co-Founder and Member of the Editorial Board, “Vienna Graduate Journal of East Asian Studies” and “Vienna Studies on East Asia”. His major research fields are socialist transformation in East Asia and Europe (with a focus on North Korea), state-business relations in East Asia, and regional integration in East Asia. His most recent books are: (with S. Burghart, eds.) “Driving Forces of Socialist Transformation: North Korea and the Experience of Europe and East Asia” (Vienna: Praesens 2010) and (ed.): “Exploring North Korean Arts” (Nuremberg: Verlag fuer Moderne Kunst). Prof. Frank is regularly consulted by governments, media and businesses on North Korea and East Asia. Most recently, this included consultancy work and a background policy paper for The Elders in preparation for the visit by President Martti Ahtisaari, Prime Minister Gro Brundtland, President Jimmy Carter and President Mary Robinson to the Korean Peninsula and China. In June 2011, he joined the World Economic Forum, Global Agenda Council on Korea

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Lukas Pokorny has been Research Assistant at the Chair of East Asian Economy and Society (October 2007 to December 2010) and Vice Director of the Studies Program of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna (October 2008 to September 2010). He holds an M.A. degree in Religious Studies, History, Philosophy, and Korean Studies and a PhD in Philosophy. His research focused on religious traditions in East Asia with an emphasis on the role of Neo-Confucianism and New Religious Movements. He conducted extensive field research in China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Study and research stays (until 2010) at Yonsei University, Tokai University, Kyoto University, Peking University and Beijing Language and Culture Universty. Mr Pokorny has taught at several universities including Charles University in Prague, Masaryk University in Brno, Comenius University in Bratislava, and Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (until 2010). Since 2011 Lukas Pokorny is Bruce Fellowship Lecturer in East Asian Religions at the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy of the University of Aberdeen.