Kyung-Min Nam

Dr. Kyung-Min Nam holds a Ph.D. in international development and regional planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and joined the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in fall 2014. His interests are in the institutional and policy dimensions of economic and environmental sustainability, and his current research focuses on the analysis of health effects of urban air pollution and climate co-benefits of air pollution abatement, and on the development of an urban growth model based on new economic geography theories.

Fields of interest

• Spatial Planning and Policy
• International Development
• Air Pollution
• Climate Change
• Emissions Trading in China and the Greater Bay Area

Professional Experience

• Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Energy Initiative (Cambridge, MA, United States), 09/2010–07/2014
• Lecturer, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, United States), 01/2011–06/2011
• Fixed-term Consultant, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (Anyang, Korea), 07/2010–08/2011
• Fixed-term Consultant, Science and Technology Policy Institute (Seoul, Korea), 10/2009–01/2010
• Summer Intern, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Bangkok, Thailand), 05/2003–08/2003
• Assistant Research Fellow, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (Anyang, Korea), 03/2000–06/2002

Education

• B.S., Urban Planning & Engineering, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea), 2000
• M.U.P., Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), 2004
• Ph.D., International Development and Regional Planning, MIT (Cambridge, MA), 2010