Mr. Gene Soon Park is the General Counsel and Board Secretary of CGIF. Mr. Park started his legal career as a Korea attorney at the largest law firm in Korea (Kim and Chang), where he gained hands-on experience in capital market transactions, cross-border financial transactions, and project financing. He has served as General Counsel of Korean subsidiaries of global institutions of Lehman Brothers Securities/Bank and Citibank/Citigroup. He held the position of General Counsel and Board Secretary for Citibank Korea and Citigroup Korea. During and after his studies at Stanford Law School, he participated in a few venture companies, one of which (a biotech startup) won the grand prize of the Stanford Entrepreneurship Competition in 2001.

Having served for 15 years in CGIF, Mr. Park has covered all legal matters of bond guarantee, treasury, internal institutions, and human resources, as well as governance, privileges and immunities, and policy issues as Board Secretary, functioning as a key middle-office professional of an MDB/IFI.

Mr. Park attended Seoul National University Law School for his Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D. in banking and securities regulations, and Stanford Law School for a master’s degree in SPILS (Stanford Program for International Legal Studies).