Kim Sun-min (; born 24 May 1964) is a South Korean health care expert currently serving as the President of
Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service (HIRA) from April 2020. She is the first woman to lead HIRA since its creation in 2000. Before promoted to its 10th president, Kim was its Executive Director of Planning, its de facto vice-president.
Kim has wealth of experience of working for inter-government and government institutions. She was a senior researcher at Korea Health Industry Development Institute from 1999 to 2001 and human rights researcher at
National Human Rights Commission from 2001 to 2004.
She took numerous roles in HIRA since 2006 when she was first joined the institution as a member of its Review and Assessment Committee. She also worked as a senior technical officer at
World Health Organization
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's Department of Service Delivery and Safety from 2016 to 2018.
Kim represented HIRA and Korea at
OECD
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Health Care Quality and Outcome (HCQO) Working Group from 2009 and became its chair in 2018 becoming the first Asian-country-national and first woman to lead the HCQO Working Group.
She holds three degrees from
Seoul National University -
M.D and master's and doctorate in preventative medicine.
She was previously an assistant professor at
Hallym University and affiliate professor at
Catholic University of Korea
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.
References
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1964 births
Living people
South Korean government officials
World Health Organization officials
People from Seoul
Seoul National University alumni
Academic staff of the Catholic University of Korea