In conversation with international YSE alum Naoya Orita, MUFG Bank

VIDEO HERE: Interview with Naoya Orita (& Nandini Arora)

Host: Nandini Arora, MEM ’26, Student Associate, CPD.

Motivation: To inspire current students, both international and domestic, how to successfully pursue opportunities.

Being on a similar path as a first year MEM at YSE, I look forward to building a community of people with similar interests.

Naoya Orita, MEM alum, is the head of the sustainable finance team @MUFG Bank. He shared about how YSE helped him pivot his career from working at a developmental organization to sustainable finance.

Key Takeaways:

  1. The community Naoya met at YSE was unique in their interests and had diverse backgrounds and, as an international student, very meaningful to him.
  2. Summer internship at Green Climate Fund.
  3. Being able to combine his diverse backgrounds with the professional skills learnt at YSE helped him make the most of his internship

#YSE #CPD #YSEalumni #internationalstudentsatYSE
Yale School of the Environment Maya Sanyal, Ph.D. Alec Barton, MEM ’26

By Maya Sanyal
Maya Sanyal Associate Director, International Student Career Success