Keiko Fujimori – on Motivating for Change

 

Keiko Fujimori

Keiko Fujimori is a Peruvian politician and daughter of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori. At 19 years of age, she became the youngest First Lady of the Americas. She graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration from Boston University and attended Columbia Business School for her MBA. From 1994-2000, she assumed the administration of the Foundation for the Children of Peru, created the Peruvian Foundation for Infant Cardiology, and dedicated herself to helping low income families nationwide.

Ms. Fujimori went on to be elected to the Peruvian Congress with the highest number of votes in Peruvian history. In 2010, the National Jury of Elections formally recognized her newly created political party, Fuerza 2011, after more than one million signatures were collected. Opinion polls granted her high possibilities to win the presidential elections in 2011; she was leading in presidential election polls as of July 2010. In 2011, she ran and lost her bid for the presidency in the 2011 Peruvian election runoff. Currently, Ms. Fujimori’s party represents the biggest opposition political group in Congress.