Associate Professor Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes

She has worked as a consultant to most major INGOs such as UNESCAP, UN WOMEN, UNDP & UNESCO in Central, East and Southeast Asia looking at the changing status of women in societies in transition. She undertook the first national surveys on the status of women in post-communist society in Central Asia and then Mongolia. The former led to the writing and publication of a seminal work on women in Central Asia entitled Lost Voices: Central Asian Women Confronting Transition which was published by Zed Books in 2006. She is a founding member of the UNESCO Asia Pacific Women’s and Gender Studies Network which was established in 2003.