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Jang Beom-sik is the president of Soongsil University.

He was born in 1957.

He graduated from the Department of English Education at Seoul National University and obtained a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.

After working at the Korea Development Bank and the Korea Securities Research Institute, he was appointed as a professor in the Department of Business Administration at Soongsil University in 1995.

He has served as a member of the Regulatory Reform Review Committee of the Financial Supervisory Commission, a member of the Financial Supervisory Evaluation Committee of the Financial Supervisory Service, Chairman of the Financial Supervision Advisory Committee, Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Korea Exchange, and Chairman of the Advisory Committee of Korea Securities Finance Corporation.

He is currently serving as an outside director of Samsung Securities.

At Soongsil University, he has held positions as Dean of the Graduate School of Business, Dean of the Graduate School of Labor Relations, and Vice President of Academic Affairs, before being appointed president in 2021.

He is dedicated to producing AI engineers and AI convergence specialists.

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