Young-Jin Choi

Young-Jin Choi

Senior ICT Policy Specialist

Young-Jin Choi is a senior ICT policy specialist in the Transport and ICT Global Practice at the World Bank. His focus areas at the Bank include introducing mobile based Intelligent Transport System (ITS) and fostering ICT Entrepreneurship in developing countries. Mr. Choi has previously worked in the ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning of the Republic of Korea, where he was administrator of the National Radio Research Agency. He once served as Chief Secretary to the Korean ICT minister. His experience covers ICT industry promotion, telecommunications regulation, standards and technical regulation, and radio spectrum management.

He also worked at the UNESCAP where he was a team leader of the project to establish the APCICT (Asia Pacific Centre for ICT training) which aims to provide capacity building program and share the best practices with the government officials from developing countries and others.    

Choi holds a master’s degree in Public Policy and Administration from University of Wisconsin and Seoul National University.