Geopolitical Risk
Consultancy

Mr. Choi’s expertise is in political-military affairs, international security, and strategy design. Until 2018, Mr. Choi was a strategist and international relations specialist at the United Nations Command / Republic of Korea-US Combined Forces Command / US Forces Korea, where he worked in both the Commander's Strategic Initiatives Group and the Directorate for Strategy, Policy, Plans, and Strategic Communications. Previously, he was a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Research Associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, Visiting Scholar at Fudan University, a Consultant to the Center for US-Korea Policy at the Asia Foundation, a Faculty Lecturer at the Korea Military Academy, and an Officer in the ROK Army.

Mr. Choi is actively engaged in track 1.5 dialogues on deterrence, regional security architectures, and alliance management. He has been an invited speaker at various academic institutions, government agencies, and think-tanks around the world, including the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey; the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) campuses in DC and Nanjing; Renmin University in Beijing; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; the Federation of American Scientists, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; the UK Foreign Commonwealth Office's Executive Agency Wilton Park; Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI) in Paris; and Elcano Royal Institute in Madrid.

A PhD candidate in the War Studies Department at King's College London, Mr. Choi holds an MA in international cooperation from Seoul National University Graduate School of International Studies and a BA in philosophy, politics and economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Cho’s expertise is in disruptive technologies. Mr. Cho works as a Venture Capitalist at Atinum Investment, one of the leading venture capital investment houses in the Republic of Korea, where his investment focuses on start-ups working with artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and advanced robotics.

Prior to his Venture Capitalist career, Mr. Cho was a strategy consultant at A.T. Kearney, where he provided business consultation to a number of global leading ICT service and manufacturing companies. Previously, he was an R&D engineer at Samsung Electronics, designing radio frequency circuits for the Galaxy S series, the smartphone manufacturer’s flagship lineup. Mr. Cho has served his military duty as an Interpretation Officer at the ROK-US Combined Forces Command.

Mr. Cho holds a BS in electrical engineering and is an ML candidate in intellectual property law, both at Seoul National University.