Yasuyuki Aoshima

Director and representative of UNESCO Office Beijing. He has an academic background in engineering sciences with a doctorate of engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1977. From 1970 to 1975 he worked as teaching and research assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne . From January 1976 to February 1982 he worked as engineer at the Nippon Kokan (steel making, ship-building and construction company), Tokyo . He joined UNESCO in February 1982 as senior purchasing officer until 1988 when 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 senior programme specialist at the Engineerin gand Technology Division responsible for the University-Industry-Science -Partnership programme (UNISPAR) assisting also the World Solar Programme. From October 1997 to September 2001 he worked as senior programme specialist in Science, Technology and Informatics division in the Jakarta field office. In September 2001 he was transferred to the Beijing Office as the 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 .