Kazuko YOKOYAMA was born in Otaru City, Hokkaido,Japan. Graduated from the Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics, Hokkaido University, Japan. MBA from Indiana State University, USA, and PhD in Economics from Kyoto University, Japan. Worked as an International Civil Servant at the International Labor Organization (ILO), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for 9 years. After returning to Japan, she worked for 30 years at Toyo Gakuen University in Tokyo as a faculty member in charge of human resource management and global human resource development. During this time, she participated in the UN PKO Operation in Cambodia as a UN volunteer. At the time of Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, she implemented an international exchange program with King’s College in Nepal. For more than 20 years, she served as a part-time career counselor for those aspiring international civil servants at Tsuda College Open School in Tokyo, and a part-time lecturer at Nagoya University Graduate School of International Development (GSID). She is currently a part-time lecturer at Toyo Gakuen University, and Hollywood Graduate School of Beauty and Business.