Michelle (Chaewon) Kim

Michelle Kim is an Energy Finance Specialist, South Korea at IEEFA. Over the past 17 years, she has worked across various energy and commodity sectors in Power, Renewables, Natural Gas and Petrochemicals.

Before her tenure at IEEFA, Michelle worked at S&P Global Commodity Insights and IHS Markit in Singapore, where she served as a senior energy 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 .

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.