Yul Kwon

Yul Kwon, who hosts the PBS miniseries America Revealed and the weekly news program “LinkAsia” on LinkTV., has enjoyed a diverse career across technology, business, law, public policy and media sectors. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, received his J.D. from Yale Law School (where he served on the editorial board of the Yale Law Journal and later clerked for Judge Barrington Parker on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals). He served as a legislative aide to U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman, then transitioned into the business sector, as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. before joining Google, Inc.’s Business Operations and Strategy group.

In 2006, Yul became the first Asian American to win the CBS reality show Survivor. Following Survivor, he worked as a special correspondent for CNN, co-hosted a show for Discovery Channel and became an adjunct instructor for the FBI, where he helped teach a counterintelligence course on social dynamics. Yul was appointed deputy chief of the FCC’s Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau, where he served from 2009 to 2011 as a key official charged with transforming the FCC into a more pro-consumer agency. He has been active in a wide range of charities, particularly those seeking to increase the number of minority bone marrow donors.