YU Department of Law Class of 64, Served as CEO of GE Korea and President of Incheon International Airport Corporation
Currently Representative Director of CJ Korea Express and CEO of CJ Corporation
[Oct 10, 2013]
Lee, Chae-wook (67) who graduated from the YU Department of Law was appointed as the CEO of CJ Corporation.
Lee graduated from the YU Department of Law in 1971 and joined Samsung C&T in 1972. He later became the CEO of Samsung GE Medical Equipment, president of the GE Medical Asia-Pacific, CEO of GE Korea, and the president of Incheon International Airport Corporation, and thus one of Korea's top global businessmen.
While serving as the president of Incheon International Airport Corporation, he set the unprecedented record of winning the Airport Service Quality Award, which is known as the Nobel Prize for airports, for the 7th year in a row. He became the first Korean to serve as an executive of the world congress of the Airports Council International (ACI), which is an advisor to the UN. Furthermore, he became the first president of a Korean public enterprise to be invited to the Harvard Asia Business Conference to give a speech on leadership.
Meanwhile, Lee was appointed as the representative director of CJ Korea Express last April and now, he will also hold the position of CEO of CJ Corporation.
