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Jang Beom-sik is the President of Soongsil University.

He was born in 1957.

Jang graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in English Education and earned a master’s degree in Business Administration from the same university. He later obtained a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.

He worked at the Korea Development Bank and the Korea Securities Research Institute before joining Soongsil University as a professor in the School of Business in 1995.

Jang has held various prominent positions, including Chair of the Audit Committee at the Korea Exchange, Chair of the Financial Supervision Advisory Committee and Financial Reform Promotion Committee at the Financial Supervisory Commission, and Advisor to Korea Securities Finance Corporation.

Since 2020, he has served as Chair of the Board at Samsung Securities.

At Soongsil University, Jang has held roles such as Dean of the Graduate School of Business, Dean of the Graduate School of Labor Relations, and Vice President for Academic Affairs, before being appointed President in 2021.

He is dedicated to fostering AI engineers and interdisciplinary professionals specializing in AI integration.

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