Shin Jee-yeon

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Shin Jee-yeon
신지연
Private Secretary to the President
In office
24 August 2019 – 9 May 2022
PresidentMoon Jae-in
Preceded byCho Han-ki
Private Secretary to the First Lady
In office
9 January 2019 – 23 August 2019
Preceded byYoo Song-hwa
Succeeded byChoi Sang-yeong
Secretary to the President for Foreign Press
In office
24 May 2017 – 8 January 2019
PresidentMoon Jae-in
Succeeded byKim Ae-kyung
Personal details
Born (1967-09-17) 17 September 1967 (age 56)
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
New York Law School

Shin Jee-yeon (Korean신지연; Hanja辛志娟; born 17 September 1967) is a South Korean lawyer who served as the private secretary (Korean제1부속비서관[1]) to the President Moon Jae-in at the Office of the President. She is the first woman to become the private secretary to the South Korean president[2] and the first person to have served as private secretary to both the president and their spouse.

Shin was the deputy spokesperson for foreign press at Moon's first presidential campaign in 2012[3] which she joined after working for major law firms - Kim & Chang and Bae, Kim & Lee - and Samsung Engineering.[4] She joined Moon's campaign again in 2017 as his coordinator for personal image.[5] She was foreign press secretary in the beginning of President Moon's term but later reshuffled to private secretary to first lady Kim Jung-sook and now President Moon.[6]

She holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from New York Law School in June 1998.[4][7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "'It's actually a system where Choi Sun-sil tells the President what to do'". The Hankyoreh. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  2. ^ "靑 제1부속비서관 신지연… 여성 첫 임명". The Dong-a Ilbo (in Korean). 2019-08-24. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  3. ^ 아리랑TV [AFTER10] 문재인 캠프 외신담당 신지연 부대변인(2012.12.14), retrieved 2020-04-22
  4. ^ a b "[프로필]신지연 靑 제2부속비서관 - 머니투데이 뉴스". news.mt.co.kr (in Korean). 2019-01-09. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  5. ^ "김외숙·신지연·고민정···청와대 여성비서관 전성시대". JoongAng Ilbo (in Korean). 2019-08-24. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  6. ^ "文대통령 총선용 비서관 인사…제1부속 신지연·정무 김광진". The Korea Economic Daily (in Korean). 2019-08-23. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  7. ^ 106th Commencement. New York Law School. 1998-06-08. p. 17. Retrieved 2021-11-03.