Dr. Ayu Krishna Yuliawati is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Management, Faculty of Economics Education and Business at the Indonesia University of Education, Bandung, Indonesia. She is  the advisor for the Policy Advocacy and Community Empowerment Unit of RDI. For over 20 years, she has been involved in numerous research and consultancy projects, especially in the field of community empowerment, youth engagement, small medium enterprise empowerment, disaster resilience, gender, and displacement. She has worked together with various clients, both at the national and international levels, including with the ASEAN Secretariat, World Vision, Plan International, Oxfam, and SNV. She has also built strong connections and relations with various ministries and governmental institutions in Indonesia.