Vice-Chairman & CEO KIM Chang-beom is a former career diplomat with 38 years’ service. He has been Vice chairman & CEO of the Federation of Korean Industries since September 2023. Prior to joining the FKI, he served as global advisor for Hyundai Motor Group. He has served as Korean Ambassador to Indonesia from January, 2018 through July 2020. He also worked in Brussels as Korean Ambassador to the European Union and Belgium from 2012 through 2015. Amb. KIM has special ties and experiences with EU affairs, ASEAN and Indonesia, in particular.

During his career, he made significant contributions to the promotion of Korea’s partnership with the EU and ASEAN through summit meeting preparations and substantial progresses in trade, investment, and people–to–people exchanges. He has worked together with the Indonesian Government in reaching a final conclusion of Indonesia – Korea Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IK CEPA) in November 2019.

As a career foreign service officer, he has served five overseas posts (US, Japan, Pakistan, Indonesia, EU/Belgium) and worked at various positions within the Korean Government ever since he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in December 1981. He has worked for President LEE Myung-bak as chief of presidential protocol at the office of the President from 2008 till 2012.

He earned a Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, USA (1986) and is a distinguished graduate of Seoul National University (B.A., 1982).

Born in 1960, in Seoul, Korea, he has a wife and two sons.