Background
Hyeon, Byung-Hwan was born on November 1, 1959 in Daegu, Republic of Korea. Son of Yeon-Taek Hyeon and Oak-Joo Kim.
Hyeon, Byung-Hwan was born on November 1, 1959 in Daegu, Republic of Korea. Son of Yeon-Taek Hyeon and Oak-Joo Kim.
Bachelor, Korea University, Seoul, 1983. Master, Korea University, Seoul, 1985. Doctor, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea, 1996.
Chief, research policy department Korea Research Institute Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, 1987—2000, director, innovative policy department, 2003—2007, director, policy department, Medical Science Research and Development Center, 2002—2003. President Bio I&S, 2000—2002. General director Korea Biotechnology Policy Institute, since 2004.
Adjunct professor Konkuk University, Seoul, since 2006, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, since 2006. Assessor, Research and Development projects Ministry Education, Science and Technology, Seoul, 2006, expert adviser, biotechnology, 2007—2008, deliberating council member, educational curriculum, since 2009. Assessor Korea Institute Industrial Technology Evaluation and Planning, Seoul, 2007—2009.
Consultant, industrial technical policy research Korea Industrial Technology Foundation, Seoul, 2008—2009. With committee agriculture, forestry and fisheries Ministry Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Seoul, since 2009. Auditor Korea Institute Planning and Evaluation for Technology in Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Seoul, since 2009.
Sergeant Military Engineer 1113 Field, 1985-1987, Suwon, Republic of Korea.
Commissioner, allocating Research and Development budget National Science & Technology Council Up-to-date Convergence Technology Committee, Seoul, 2008—2010. Commissioner, modifying policy National Science & Technology Council Biotechnology Committee, 2009. Commissioner, mediating knowledge property policy National Science & Technology Council Knowledge Property Committee, since 2010.
Master: Korea Technology Innovation Society (Daejeon), Korean Society Innovation Management and Economics (Seoul), Bioscience & Biotechnology Researcher Council (Seoul).
Married Mee-Hee Choi, December 25, 1988. Children: Jae-Hoon, Su-Jin.