Francis Kim (2008)
A faculty member / startup founder / investor
Francis (Jeen) is an assistant professor at Chulalongkorn and adjunct professor at Yonsei, focusing on the strategic governance design of innovation from the social science, investors, and policy design perspectives. Francis has been a private investor on multiple asset class and has mentored a few prominent Korean family business groups on succession, guiding the next generation of young leaders as they prepare to take on key roles for their listed family enterprises in Asia.
He holds a DPhil from Oxford and, prior to academic career, worked as an investment strategist at Goldman Sachs (Asia-Pacific). He was a visiting scholar at Harvard Law, researching on contract theory in light of governance and ethics design in business, and read an MPA at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government as a Samsung Lee Gun Hee Scholar. Having taught thousands of students from undergraduates to executive MBAs across Asia, he continues to expand his knowledge in the new field also as a postgraduate student at Penn Engineering.
In 2025, he founded a BLOCK71-incubated EdTech in Singapore and channels capital from its established educational and strategic advisory services in East Asia to back tech projects in Southeast Asia. A former Navy officer and athlete, he enjoys both sea and pool swimming in his free time and plans to found a rare palm conservancy on the tradewind side of the Pacific island of Maui.
