Yang Han is a DPhil candidate in International Relations and a Swire Scholar. Her doctoral research focuses on contemporary China-Africa relations, exploring China’s outlook on international hierarchies through its discourse on Africa with a particular focus on the intersections of race, class and gender. Yang holds an MSc degree in International Relations Research from LSE, as well as a BA in International Politics and a BSc in Psychology from Peking University.
Yang works for UNIDO as a gender mainstreaming expert.
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Yang works for UNIDO as a gender mainstreaming expert offering gender analysis and drafts the gender action plans for a range of UNIDO projects. Yang also worked as a research consultant for International Labor Organization in Beijing. Previously, Yang supported the internal gender review of UNICEF Beijing and research on counter-illegal human trafficking in Asia.
