I am Mieke Dale-Harris, from Devon, Britain. I have a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Goldsmiths College, London University. On finishing my bachelor I went to live in Ecuador and later in Bolivia where I did an internship at INESAD, a development economics think tank. This in turn, confirmed my belief that i would like to move away from pure psychology and instead use the knowledge from my Bachelor in the field of development. I chose Mesci, because I believe a scientific approach to development is key and economic statistics and theory are currently the main underlying scientific factors for development studies