Seonho Shin is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Ajou University, South Korea, and an affiliated researcher with the SSK Economics Research Group at Seoul National University. His primary research interests include applied microeconomics and microeconometrics, with a particular focus on cross-border human capital mobility (e.g., asylum seekers, refugees, migrants, and defectors), labor economics, cultural economics, and the dynamics of economies receiving non-native populations.

He holds a B.A. from Seoul National University, supported by a scholarship from the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS), and an M.Sc. and Doctorate from Universität Frankfurt (Johann Wolfgang Goethe), where he studied as a national scholarship recipient supported by the Federal Government of Germany, completing his doctoral studies in 2020.

Prior to his academic career, he accumulated professional experience in strategy consulting across diverse countries, having worked as a consultant at Monitor-Deloitte and subsequently as a senior consultant and project manager at Roland Berger.