Jung-hoon (John) Lee is currently Honorary Mayor of Seoul Metropolitan Government (2023~) and Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at the Graduate School of Information, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He is also director of Digital Transformation of Technology Management Research Center and was visiting scholar to Stanford Graduate School of Business (2011/2012) and visiting academic fellow at the center for Technology Management, IfM, University of Cambridge. Prof. Lee has been involved in several leading R&D projects to develop a national strategy and vision for Smart City, analyzing and designing Smart City services and implementation and developing Performance Management Systems. At national level, he is currently a member of National Smart City Committee and the chair of public data open/usage committee in Open Data Strategy Council of Republic of Korea and working committee member of National Data Policy Committee.