Seong Kim joined the Department of the Interior – Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement in March 2024 as the Assistant Director for Strategic Engagement. Ms. Kim ensures mission critical issues, initiatives, and agency functions align with the Department and Administration’s energy goals. Representing BSEE, she develops and fosters partnerships with intergovernmental senior executives, congressional representatives, State, Tribal, and Local entities for collaboration on safety and enforcement. Ms. Kim is also a key leader in working with industry stakeholders to support BSEE mission delivery. She leads strategic communications and ensures field operations aligns with organizational goals of increasing effectiveness, responsiveness, and community impact.
Ms. Kim was previously at the Department of Homeland Security - Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for 11 years of service. Her last role at FEMA was the Director leading enterprise data and analytics modernization. A program office focused on making improvements in people, process, and technology to advance the way data and business intelligence drives data-informed decisions at FEMA (and with our emergency management partners). Her work in information technology (IT) and business processing re-engineering laid the foundation of how to implement enterprise-wide and large-scale modernization efforts for the Agency. Ms. Kim has extensive expertise in multiple disciplines including communications, stakeholder engagement, IT, program management, financial and budget management, acquisition, change management, human capital, and governance. She’s led enterprise strategy to improve organizational effectiveness and enjoys solutioning complex problems to drive greater performance and results.
Ms. Kim has extensive experience in field operations enabling the ability to ready and deploy the incident workforce to support people before, during, and after disasters. Her career also concentrated on grants modernization efforts where she worked with programs, regions, states, and tribal nations to streamline the grants management processes to provide quicker financial assistance to communities and survivors.
Before joining the public sector, Ms. Kim worked at Morgan Stanley in Southern California. She created and executed business development programs designed to increase revenue margins that brought in almost a billion dollars in assets, generating over $10M in revenue.
Ms. Kim is extremely passionate about fostering a culture focused on accountability, collaboration, and innovation. She lives in Virginia with her Husband. When she’s not working, she enjoys traveling, performance cars, cooking, movies, arts & crafts, and spending quality time with family and friends.