Shijiro has always had one career goal: finding a way to effectively combat economic, financial, and social injustice.
She began her career providing financial analysis to the Prime Minister of Mongolia addressing income inequality challenges. Her journey led her to economic analyst roles with the UNDP and WTO, a senior business analyst role with one of Australia’s largest corporations, and a consultancy role with an Indonesian startup helping smallholder farmers.
Shijiro received her MBA from the University of Sydney and her MPA degree from the Harvard Kennedy School with an emphasis on impact investment, which included social finance coursework from Harvard Business School. Her education also focused on how certain social, policy, and political environments concentrate wealth-building capital in the hands of the few as well as the solutions required to overcome the challenge.
“Having worked to address social inequity in both the public and private sectors that helped me connect the dots, I believe I can most effectively take on economic injustice through impact investment. At Reinventure, our team consists of people who genuinely care about and are the best at what they do. Injustice is multifaceted and borderless in how it damages people’s lives and livelihoods. The best way to fight it is by experiencing the complexity of the challenge and finding the role and the team that allows you to contribute the most.”