Jaehak Oh

Dr. Oh was Vice President and Director of the National Transport Strategy Planning at KOTI from 2011 to 2017. During the last 25 years, he has managed more than 70 KOTI’s transport projects. From 2006 to 2011, he was the project manager of the national R&D, “Transport Connectivity and Transfer technology Development”. He has played a key role in innovating transport systems for green growth and formulating infrastructure policies for the Korean government. Since 2009, Dr. Oh has also managed research project of High-Speed Rail (KTX) economic development which aimed to promote regional and urban development through KTX station area development. Dr. Oh obtained his Ph.D. on Transport Studies at University College London in 1990. Since 1992, he has been working at the Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) and took a one-year leave of absence during 1995 as a lecturer at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.