Yang is a first-year student in the M.A. European and Eurasian Studies program. Her focus is Russia and Central Asian countries.
Yang will be interning at the World Bank’s Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) project for Spring 2016. Yang will be responsible for developing and maintaining effective links with external partners from Russian-speaking countries, collecting data from specialists through questionnaires, and researching laws and regulations with primary data sources and publicly available information.Yang is passionate about applying research to better understand development issues and promote international cooperation in solving complex problems, such as ending poverty and rural development.
Prior to grad school, Yang worked as the executive assistant to Consul General of Kazakhstan in Shanghai from 2012 to 2014 and in the telecommunication industry in Moscow, Russia from 2010 to 2012. Yang graduated from Shanghai International Studies University in 2010 with bachelor’s degree in Russian and Russian literature. She also studied as an exchange student at Belgorod National Research University in Russia from 2008 to 2009.
