Michelle (Chaewon) Kim

Michelle Chaewon Kim is an Energy Finance Specialist, South Korea at IEEFA. Over the past 16 years, she has worked across various energy and commodity sectors in Singapore and South Korea.

Before her tenure at IEEFA, Michelle spent more than 11 years at S&P Global Commodity Insights and IHS Markit in Singapore, where she served as a senior market analyst, focusing on trading and fundamental analysis on Oil, LNG, and Petrochemicals. She also held positions at Ernst & Young's Energy M&A Advisory team in Korea as an assistant director and at Korea Economic Daily and Seoul Economic Daily as a business reporter.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, and a Master of Science in International Business from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.