Ji Mi Choi

Associate Vice President, ASU Knowledge Enterprise, Founding Executive Director, J. Orin Edson Entrepreneurship + Innovation Institute

Ji Mi Choi serves as an associate vice president advancing entrepreneurship and innovation, utilizing her twenty-plus years of expertise in higher education at the intersection of entrepreneurial and public-private partnerships.

Previously, Choi served in various fast-paced and evolving roles at New York University: early in her career at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts before new media was new media; later at the Polytechnic University (now the Tandon School of Engineering at NYU), first serving as the chief of staff to the president and vice president for strategic initiatives, then later serving as the senior director of integration, leading the merger between the two institutions; and subsequently serving as the assistant vice president for global programs planning. Choi has also served at the world-renowned Earth Institute at Columbia University, ultimately as chief of staff and assistant deputy director.

A long-time New Yorker by way of Seoul and an avid internationalist, Choi has served in a leadership role for the United Nations Development Programme and in various capacities for numerous start-up organizations, both not-for-profit and for profit (helping take a company public in the early days of the dot-com boom), and has been involved in political campaigns.

Choi received her BA in English literature and communications from Marymount Manhattan College and her MS in strategic communications from Columbia University.