Yasuyuki AOSHIMA

Director and Representative

Yasuyuki Aoshima has an academic background in Civil Engineering and holds a Doctorate of Engineering (1977) from the University of Tokyo.  From 1970 to 1975 he worked as a teaching and research assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.  From 1976 to 1982 he worked as an engineer at Nippon Kokan (steel making, ship-building and construction company), Japan.

Aoshima joined UNESCO in 1982 as Purchasing Officer.  In 1988 he became the Chief of Budgetary Control and Monitoring at the Section of Fellowships and Equipment Division.  In 1993 he became Chief of the Fellowship Section of UNESCO for a few months before being transferred to the Natural Science Sector as Programme Specialist at the Engineering and Technology Division responsible for the University-Industry-Science-Partnership Programme (UNISPAR) and the World Solar Programme 1996-2005.  From 1997 to 2001 he worked at the Jakarta Office as Senior Programme Specialist for Science, Technology and Informatics.  In September 2001 he was transferred to the UNESCO Office Beijing Office as Director and Representative of UNESCO to the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. 

          Email: y.aoshima@unesco.org