Dr. Jeong is Assistant Professor at Kean University in New Jersey. He received his doctoral degree from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of Pittsburgh. He received his Master’s degree in Public Administration and Public Policy and Bachelor’s degrees in Social Welfare and International Relations from Seoul National University. He previously taught at Rutgers University-Newark in New Jersey and Robert Morris University in Pennsylvania. He worked as an intern at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations in 2012.

He also has a great array of hands-on experiences in international development, nonprofit management, and social entrepreneurship. He founded and served as president of a charity organization at the University of Pittsburgh, entitled Purposeful Penny. He is also serving on a board of a social enterprise & nonprofit titled the ASA Social Fund for Hidden Peoples that supports gender violence victims and internally displaced children in Africa.

His research interests include nonprofit management, philanthropy, voluntarism, social enterprise * social economy, social capital, international development, and collaboration between international organizations.

His dissertation examined the driving forces-volunteerism, civic activism, professionalism, and commercialism- that have shaped the South Korean civil society sector and its surrounding accountability environments. This study probed into the evolution of NPOs in South Korea, taking a comparative look at nonprofits in the US and South Korea.

His research on social enterprise and entrepreneurship has focused on the impacts of public policy on the emergence and management of social enterprises from comparative perspectives. He published a paper on the East Asian social enterprise model titled “Developmental state and South Korean social enterprise model”, highlighting the role of public policy in the formation of social enterprises in the Social Enterprise Journal in 2015.  He also published his recent paper titled “Social enterprise and work integration of North Korean migrants in South Korea” in Contemporary Politics (co-authored with Dr. Eric Bidet) in 2016.