Sion Yang

Youth Representative, Korea

Sion Yang is an aspiring education expert in the field of international development cooperation. She obtained her Master of Arts degree in Educational Sciences from the University of Jyväskylä in Finland, specializing in Educational Leadership and Current Issues in Education and Psychology. Currently, she works in the Education Sector of ICESCO as a Young Professional on Africa (YPA), dispatched by the Korea-Africa Foundation (KAF), an organization under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea. 

She recently served as an Education Development Program Officer under the Official Development Assistance (ODA) Young Professional Program with the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), where she worked on education development projects in Uganda and Tanzania.