Kim Tae-wan is currently the director of the Eucation Comission Asia (ECA). As the former head of the Korea Educational Development Institute, he led a team that researched and developed Korea's education policy. He served as a professor of education at Keimyung University and guided students with a Ph.D. in education policy. He taught human resource development subjects in the master's course for domestic and foreign students at the KDI Graduate School of International Policy, and published a number of books related to educational policy. He received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and was a professor of research at Columbia University.