Jeonnam-Gwangju Integrated Special City presented appointment certificates Thursday to Baek Seung-ju, 61, as deputy mayor for balanced development, and Yoon Nan-sil, 60, as deputy mayor for civic sovereignty.
Both deputy mayors began work immediately following the personnel orders issued Thursday.
The ceremony was held at 7:50 a.m. in the reception room on the third floor of Gwangju City Hall.
Baek graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in economics. He previously served as chair professor at Suncheon National University and deputy director of the Asian Development Bank Institute, and held positions at the Ministry of Economy and Finance as director general of planning and coordination and director general of fiscal innovation.
Yoon studied public administration at Korea National Open University. She has served as chair of the innovation and autonomy expert committee under the Local Era Commission, special policy adviser to South Jeolla Province, secretary for institutional reform at the Presidential Secretariat, and head of the social innovation task force in South Gyeongsang Province.
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