Biography
Mariko is an MBA candidate at Saïd Business School and currently a participant of Leading for Impact Program. She is also a fellow of Orinus Partners, a start-up Japanese business consultancy firm which provides advisory services to firms based in Japan on inclusive businesses.
Prior to the MBA, she worked on business feasibility studies to disseminate technologies aimed at solving social challenges and to promote private sector development in emerging countries at JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency). She began her career at General Electric, where she graduated from two of GE’s fast-track leadership programs (Corporate Audit Staff and Financial Management Program). She worked at GE Capital, Energy and Healthcare.
Mariko is a Rotary Global Scholar, and holds a Bachelor of Art in Policy and Management with a focus on Social Innovation from Keio University, Japan. She studied development economics at McGill Universty in Canada as an exchange student. She went to Nordic United World College, where she developed her passion in global poverty reduction.