Francis D. KIM

Assistant Professor
The School of Integrated Innovation, Chulalongkorn University in Thailand

Francis is a faculty member (Assistant Professor) at the School of Integrated Innovation, Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. His research focuses on how contractual incentives affect governance and policy arrangements in the Innovation, Corporate Governance, and Political Economy issue areas. Francis was a faculty member (Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship) at the Indian School of Business for 2018-2022. For Fall 2019, Francis was invited as a Visiting Scholar to Harvard Law School, primarily to develop his collaborative research on contracts of giant tech companies, and was an Affiliate at Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University.

Francis has taught Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital to PGP students at the Indian School of Business (2018-2022), and to both MBA and undergraduate students regularly at Yonsei University since 2020, and teaches on Entrepreneurial Finance, Global Economic Environments as Institutions for Innovations, and Platform Economy at Chulalongkorn University.

He holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford University (2018). Prior to his academic career, Francis worked as an Associate Strategist at Goldman Sachs for the Asia-Pacific region and served as a Navy Officer in South Korea.

Thèmes de recherche : Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Institutional Economics, Nonmarket Strategy, Corporate Governance, and Political Economy.

Francis D. Kim est chercheur associé à la FFJ depuis 2017 dans le cadre de l’Axe 1 : « Diversité des capitalismes et changements institutionnels » qui vise une meilleure compréhension des économies asiatiques et de leurs transformations.

Il a été chercheur invité de la FFJ de mai à juin 2017 pour mener des recherches. Il a rédigé à cette occasion le Research Statement « When family capitalism meets shareholder activism: South Korea » est disponible sur le site de la foundation.

Research Statement