Yukari Ota is a PhD Candidate at University of Cambridge and a member of Corpus Christi Collage. Prior to this, Yukari had over 14-years of professional experience in international peacebuilding and development with the United Nations and foreign governments. She was posted to Kosovo, Cambodia, the Solomon Islands, Afghanistan and Pakistan and worked on programme development and management in number of flagship disarmament and security sector programmes. She worked in Afghanistan between 2004 and 2010 and ran the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) programme in Mazar-i-Sharif and later worked as an advisor to senior Afghan government officials in Kabul.
