Yoko Mochizuki is an independent scholar based in Paris. Previously, she was Head of Policy at UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) in New Delhi, Programme Specialist for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Climate Change at UNESCO Paris, and ESD Specialist at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies of Sustainability. She has taught the Sociology of Education at Teachers College Columbia University in New York and Keio University in Tokyo.