Soh Young In
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate School of Green Growth & Sustainability - si2131@kaist.ac.kr
- IMPACT Lab
- Sustainable Finance
- Climate Risk Analysis
- Infrastructure Development & Investment
- Project Management
- Carbon Market
Profile
- Soh Young In is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and an Affiliate Faculty of the Graduate School of Green Growth and Sustainability at KAIST.
- She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the ADIA Lab (UAE). Before joining KAIST, she led research on financial innovation and sustainable finance at Stanford University. She previously worked at the Korea Development Bank (KDB) in global project finance and has advised organizations such as the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Boston Consulting Group, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Korea’s Presidential Commission on Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth, providing economic and financial expertise to inform policy and investment strategies.
- Professor In’s research focuses on catalyzing transitions toward low-carbon and climate-resilient infrastructure systems by integrating technology, finance, and policy innovation. She examines how diverse stakeholders—including asset owners and managers, investors, and policymakers—can systematically incorporate sustainability into their decision-making processes, and how technology and policy can facilitate this transformation. Her work particularly emphasizes infrastructure assets such as energy, transportation, and cities, which are increasingly vulnerable to climate-related risks that significantly affect their valuation. Her research group develops frameworks to identify, measure, and capture the material impacts of climate change and the low-carbon transition on infrastructure assets, investment portfolios, and economic systems.
- Professor In has published extensively on the intersection of climate, management, and policy in critical infrastructure sectors such as energy and transportation, with her work appearing in leading academic journals. She is also the editor of the forthcoming Springer Nature volume on Sustainable Digital Finance and has contributed OECD Policy Development Policy Papers and opinion pieces to Project Syndicate. Beyond academia, she actively contributes to public discourse, serving as a panelist at the World Knowledge Forum, the Point Zero Forum, and events organized by the Asian Development Bank, the Bank of Korea, and the Financial Services Commission. Her thought leadership has been featured in major media outlets, including Chosun Media, Asia Economy Daily, Korea Economic Daily, Hankyung ESG Magazine, WIRED Magazine, and S&P Dow Jones Indices.
- Her interdisciplinary scholarship has been recognized internationally, including the UNEP Finance Initiative Research Award (2016) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Energy Education & Empowerment Award (2017).