Dr. Park is a Distinguished University Professor and Dean of the School of Business at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. He previously held the position of President’s Chair and Professor in Strategy and International Business, as well as Director of the Nanyang Center for Emerging Markets at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Before his tenure at NTU, he served as Dean of the Atkinson Graduate School of Management at Willamette University. Dr. Park began his academic career at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where he received several teaching and research awards and achieved early promotions to Associate and Full Professor.
Since the early 2000s, Dr. Park has focused on emerging markets. He has held various positions, including Parkland Chair Professor of Strategy and Director of the Centre for Emerging Market Studies at China Europe International Business School, Chair Professor of Strategy at the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, and founding president of the SKOLKOVO-Ernst & Young Institute for Emerging Market Studies. He was also a senior executive at Samsung Group, serving as the founding President of the Samsung Economic Research Institute (China).
Dr. Park is an elected fellow of the Academy of International Business. In 2015, he received the Outstanding Service to the Global Community Award from the Academy of Management’s International Management Division for his contributions to bridging research, practice, and policy communities through his work on emerging markets. He was awarded the JIBS Silver Medal in 2019 for his outstanding contributions to the journal and was included in Stanford’s list of the world’s top 2% most cited scholars in business and management in 2020.
His research has been published in leading management journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Sloan Management Review, Organization Science, and Journal of Business Venturing. His recent research focuses on sustained high-performance organizations, emerging market multinationals, and growth strategies for multinational and local companies in emerging markets. He has co-authored several books on emerging markets, including the award-winning “Rough Diamonds: Four Traits of Successful Breakout Enterprises in BRIC Countries” (Jossey-Bass, 2013), “Scaling the Tail: Managing Profitable Growth in Emerging Markets” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), “Managing Emerging Multinationals: Solving International Challenges” (Cambridge University Press, 2016), “ASEAN Champions: Emerging Stalwarts in Regional Integration” (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and “Building Strategic Capabilities in Emerging Markets” (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Dr. Park has been a leader in global academic communities, serving as Chair, Program Chair, and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Management Division of the Academy of Management. He has also been on several major journals’ editorial and advisory boards, including the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of International Business Studies. He has organized influential international conferences and forums in China and Russia and is the founding president of the Association for Korean Management Scholars. With extensive experience in corporate consulting and training worldwide, he is a frequent speaker at corporate meetings and international forums. He has served as a board member of Amore Pacific (Seoul), a corporate strategy advisor for the Wity Group (Shanghai), a trustee for the International School of Beijing, and a member of the International Expert Council of the Higher School of Economics (Moscow).
