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Sunwoo Hwang

Finance PhD Candidate, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Sunwoo is a PhD candidate in finance at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. Prior to joining the program, he worked as an Asia research analyst and headed Korea research of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) at MSCI. With his team based in Singapore, he produced research and vote recommendations on publicly-traded companies in the region for ISS’ clients, who are the largest institutional shareholders worldwide. Prior to joining ISS, he majored in asset management at KDI School of Public Policy and Management (2009-2010), industrial engineering and operations research at Pennsylvania State University (2007-2009), and industrial and information systems engineering at Ajou University (2002-2007). While at Ajou, he took two years off to serve in the Republic of Korea Marine Corps as an intelligence and communications specialist.