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YOKO MIURA
JAPAN
Sponsored by: Rotary club of YOSHIKAWA, Saitama, District 2770, Japan
Country of Citizenship: Japan
Language proficiency: Japanese, English, Basic Thai
Undergraduate degree: BA (Economics)
Areas of special interest: Refugee resettlement, Advocacy activities, Building medical service system, Medical economics, freedom from the poverty
Background to RWPF Award: I started my career at Ernst & Young doing tax and audit practices and continued auditing at Nikko Citigroup (fka Solomon Smith Barney). However, I had a great opportunity to become directly involved with MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres), which dramatically changed my life, and in September 2007, had a first assignment in Bangkok, Thailand, as a country administrator. I also joined fundraising projects on a volunteering basis at Oxfam and Child fund in Japan.
What are you going to do with your RWPF?: I believe RWPF enable me to make a personal contribution to making the global community more peaceful in nature and also the uses to make of the knowledge and analytical skills acquired while studying at Bradford.