Economic bureaucrat turned financier; former Financial Services Commission chairman and NH Financial and Woori Financial Group chairman
| Life | 1959 |
| Era | 현대 |
| Clan | 장흥 임씨 |
Im Jong-ryong is a South Korean financier and former economic bureaucrat whose seat is given on Wikipedia as Jangheung Im. He was born in Boseong, South Jeolla, on 3 August 1959 and graduated from Yeongdong High School (1978) and Yonsei University's economics department (1982), completed the master's course at Seoul National University's Graduate School of Public Administration and earned a master's in economics at the University of Oregon. As he is living, only his public career is summarized neutrally.
He passed the higher civil service examination (finance) in 1981 and worked at the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Finance and Economy. He was senior secretary for economic and financial affairs in the Presidential Office in 2009, First Vice Minister of Strategy and Finance in April 2010 and Director of the Prime Minister's Office from September 2011, retiring in March 2013.
He chaired NH Financial Group from June 2013 to February 2015 and the Financial Services Commission from March 2015 to July 2017. Wikipedia records him as chairman of Woori Financial Group since March 2023. This is public career drawn from Wikipedia, and his current position may have changed, so please recheck official sources.
He entered the civil service through the finance track and served as First Vice Minister of Strategy and Finance and Director of the Prime Minister's Office.
He chaired NH Financial Group, the Financial Services Commission and Woori Financial Group. See also the Jangheung Im page.