Yuka Shimokawa is an Associate Director of Business and Program Development at the Milken Institute Asia Center. She specializes in building strategic partnerships and developing programs for the Institute's supporters worldwide. She also leads the Milken Institute Individual Memberships in Asia, which includes the Associates and the Young Leaders circle that brings together the region's next generation of leaders. Since joining the Institute, she has been responsible for deepening engagement across a network of supporters and leaders from Japan. Before joining the Institute, she spent four years in the Investment Banking Division at Bank of America. Shimokawa holds a master's degree from UC Berkeley School of Law and is a licensed lawyer in New York State.