Lee Hye-kyung, social welfare professor at Yonsei University, has been appointed the chairperson of the Seoul Welfare Foundation, which helps set the city’s welfare policies and improve social services in the capital, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Government on Wednesday.

Lee is expected to serve a three-year term at the foundation until March 2015.

Her career in the field of social welfare includes chairperson of the presidential consultative committee on resolving social polarization and head of the Korean Social Security Association. Her research has also focused on public welfare policies.

Lee holds a Ph.D. in social welfare from U.C. Berkeley.

By Lee Woo-young  (wylee@heraldcorp.com)