Yuri Geshi

Visiting Professor, Asian Institute
Associate Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Ryutsu Keizai University

Biography

Main bio

Yuri Geshi is a Visiting Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy in the Asian Institute. She is also an Associate Professor at the Ryutsu Keizai University in Japan. She completed her MA and PhD in Disability Sciences at the University of Tsukuba.

She has published many works studying the cases of the persons with disabilities from the view of welfare programs, educational systems, and social policy.

She is currently doing a comparative exploration of Japan and Canada with regard to policy problems associated with the people with intellectual disabilities.