Hanpil Moon is Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Chonnam National University, Republic of Korea. He previously served as Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Rural Economic Institute (KREI), where he conducted policy-oriented research on agricultural trade, rural development, and structural transformation. He earned his Ph.D. in Applied Economics from Oregon State University, with a dissertation focusing on international trade and regional productivity.
Professor Moon’s research specializes in international trade, agricultural trade policy, economic geography, and digital governance in agriculture. His recent work examines agricultural exports and growth in OECD countries, price dynamics in agri-food markets, digital trade agreements and smart farm data governance, and structural reforms in public direct payment systems. His research has been published in leading SSCI-indexed journals, including Empirical Economics, The Singapore Economic Review, and the Journal of International Trade & Economic Development.
His current work focuses on digitalization of agricultural policy, data governance, and lifecycle-based targeting of farm support systems.