{"id":"ji-hun-kim","title":"Ji Hun Kim","content":"**Ji Hun Kim** is a legal and policy expert in the digital asset industry and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI), a global alliance of crypto industry leaders. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-VwB4RJuj3XN7Bm2c) [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-70OgVBRYovgceLqt) His career has been defined by senior legal and regulatory roles at major cryptocurrency exchanges, including [Gemini](https://iq.wiki/wiki/gemini) and [Kraken](https://iq.wiki/wiki/kraken), after beginning his legal practice in traditional corporate law and with a federal judicial clerkship. [\\[3\\]](#cite-id-MdNTOFT5UFU93AMN) [\\[4\\]](#cite-id-dIFn8Ggdvtwm1cVy) \n\n## Education\n\nJi Hun Kim earned a Bachelor of Arts from Boston College, where he studied history as a major and theology as a minor. He later completed a Juris Doctor degree at the Fordham University School of Law.  [\\[4\\]](#cite-id-dIFn8Ggdvtwm1cVy) \n\n## Career\n\nJi Hun Kim has held senior legal, policy, and executive roles across the digital asset industry and private legal practice. Since June 2025, he has served as Chief Executive Officer of the Crypto Council for Innovation, after previously acting as President and Acting CEO, and earlier as Chief Legal and Policy Officer beginning in May 2023. In these roles, he has overseen organizational leadership, legal strategy, and public policy engagement related to cryptocurrency and blockchain issues.\n\nPrior to joining the Crypto Council for Innovation, Kim was Acting General Counsel and Head of Policy and Regulatory Affairs at Gemini from 2020 to 2023, where he managed legal and regulatory matters for the digital asset exchange and custodian. In 2019, he served as a senior attorney at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange, focusing on corporate, regulatory, and strategic legal work. [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-70OgVBRYovgceLqt)  [\\[3\\]](#cite-id-MdNTOFT5UFU93AMN) \n\nEarlier in his career, Kim practiced law at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP from 2012 to 2019 as a senior associate, advising clients on corporate transactions, restructuring, and related legal matters. He also served as a federal judicial law clerk to Judge Robert D. Drain of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York from 2011 to 2012. His early legal experience includes roles at GrayRobinson PA, as well as summer and junior positions at Thelen LLP, Brown Raysman LLP, and Skadden LLP.  [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-VwB4RJuj3XN7Bm2c)  [\\[4\\]](#cite-id-dIFn8Ggdvtwm1cVy) ","summary":"Ji Hun Kim is President and CEO of the Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI). 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