Yu Cao, PhD

Yu Cao, PhD, is a Senior Fellow at The Arctic Institute. She is a contributing writer to the Institute’s weekly publication in app form, The Arctic This Week App. Yu’s areas of interests include Arctic policy, and Corporate Social Responsibility in the extractive industry.

She completed her PhD degree – on multinational extractive industries’ Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives – in Political Science at Northern Arizona University. She now works at the Alaska Center for Energy and Power as a postdoc.

Yu also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law and Legal Studies from Shanghai International Studies University, and a Master’s degree in Arctic and Northern Studies from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her graduate thesis on communities’ reflections on oil companies’ Corporate Social Responsibility activities in Utqiaġvik, Alaska was published in the Yearbook of Polar Law. She also was a summer intern at the North Star Group working on Arctic policy and responsible resource development related issues.