Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Religious Studies; Director, Korean Studies Center, George Mason University, U.S.A.; Professor, Yonsei University and Korea University, Korea; Major research fields: Korean Confucianism, Comparative and Cross- Cultural Study of Religion, Interreligious Dialogue, Confucian- Christian Dialogue; Selected works: Raimon Panikkar: A Companion to his Life and Thought (2018), The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi Yulgok (1988), etc.