Dr. Yu Kojima has Ph.D. degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands and she has over 14 years of international experience in the area of gender, migration and development through programme management/gender research for public policy and planning and advocacy in Asia and the Pacific region. Yu offers expertise drawn from combination of experience in both academic and policy research while she brings in development planning experience earned through working with several UN agencies including UNDP, UNIFEM and UNICEF-Innocenti Research Cenre. Yu served as an Expert on Migration, Women and Mobility- Asia for the United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM) in Barcelona, Spain. Yu is also a member of Regional Gender Specialist Group hosted by UNICEF in Asia and a member of Gender Specialist Roster, the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) based in Rome, Italy.
