Kim Sung-Hwan was a career diplomat and served as the Minister of  Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea from October 2010 to  March 2013. With a career spanning over 36 years, he held a number of  senior diplomatic posts including the Senior Secretary to the President for  Foreign Affairs and National Security and Vice Minister of MOFAT. He was  appointed as a Member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel of  Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda in July, 2012.After retiring from the Foreign Service, he served as the Chair of Institute  for Global Social Responsibility and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the  Seoul National University until March 2015.  He is now working as the President of Taejae Future Consensus Institute  and the Chairman of the East Asia Foundation and Beautiful Mind Charity  Foundation.