Bio

Won Lee's primary research focuses on sustainable urban and regional development. His research goal is to find a compatible equilibrium between efficiency and equity issues and concerns, based on the macro-level urban development area and micro-level community development area. He is also interested in urban water supply and quality issues, and the conflict between environmental development and equity issues such as water gentrification. 

Won has a master's degree in public affairs from Cornell University (2006) and a dual bachelor's degree in Swedish and English languages from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in his native country South Korea. Won worked in the corporate business and financial sector from 2000 to 2006 before beginning his doctoral studies. Won currently lives in Atlanta with his wife, You Jeong.