Yu-Chieh Hsu is a Policy Specialist of the Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), working with both the Human Development Report Office Research and Statistics teams. She joined the Human Development Report Office in 2014 and has been working on the measurement and evaluation of human development and gender equality. Her work focuses on the Human Development Report’s Human Development Index and gender-related composite indices and indicators. Much of her research has been centered on health, education, gender, and inequality. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Demography, Population Studies, and Journal of Health Economics.
Before coming to UNDP, she was a Senior Research Analyst at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC at the University of Chicago). During that time, she was jointly appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a PhD and MPhil in Public Policy and Management. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Statistics from Columbia University.