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The Global Solutions Initiative’s Young Global Changers program nominates a selected group of Young Global Changers Alumni to represent the program as Young Global Changers Ambassadors. These Ambassadors represent the diversity of the Young Global Changers community. They participate in activities of the Global Solutions Initiative, serve as mentors for fellow Young Global Changers and help to form an active and growing network. Appointed for a two-year period, the Young Global Changers Ambassadors are invited to the Global Solutions Summit, the Initiative’s annual conference in Berlin.

2024 YGC Ambassadors

Rosario del Pilar Diaz Garavito
Peru | Young Global Changer 2022
– YGC AMBASSADOR FOR LATIN AMERICA –

Rosario is a SDGs activist, Founder & Executive Director of The Millennials Movement a youth led organization that mobilizes youth in 16 countries of the LATAM region. Rosario was recently appointed as UN Civil Society Conference 2024, Off Site Events Sub-Committee Co Coordinator and also serves as LATAM Consultation Lead for the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report. Rosario served as a former Member of the Youth Advisory Board for the Human Rights of Youth partnership of the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, Education Above All and Silatech, and was awarded as an Obama Foundation Scholar 2019-2020 and currently holds a Master’s Degree on International Development and Policy at the University of Chicago.

In 2013, she was appointed as Youth Advocate of the My World 2015 survey where she led the mobilization of 38 000 Peruvians for the definition of the 2030 Agenda. Rosario played a pivotal role for the establishment of the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) children and youth regional formal mechanism – MeSCLAC, as well as it’s integration in MGCY representing the LAC region, where she served as Elected Focal Point 2020 – 2022, serving as Co Lead for the LAC Regional Sessions of the ECOSOC Youth Forum 2019 – 2022.

Rosario is a LAC Women Empower Program 2022- 2023 of the Ban Ki Moon Center alumni, Young Global Changer 2022 for the Global Solution the World Policy Forum and Women Champion 2015 – 2016 for UN Women for the “Empower Women” Global Movement for Women Economic Empowerment. Her work has been recognized by the Vice Presidency of Peru, the Regional Coordinator of the UN System in Peru, The United Nations Millennium Campaign, AIESEC International with the Leader for Peace Award.

Contimi Kenfack Mouafo
Cameroon/Germany | Young Global Changer 2022
– YGC AMBASSADOR FOR AFRICA –

Contimi Kenfack Mouafo is a Pan-African and sustainability enthusiast on a mission to enable Africa to achieve its potential and at the same time, have a global impact in the fight against climate change. With a background in electrical engineering, he has many years of experience in the renewable energy sector. He is passionate about changing the narrative about his home continent and believes showcasing the ingenuity of young Africans as they develop innovative concepts to address climate change which is the biggest crisis the world faces today is the best way to do so. For this reason he founded 3 E’s 4 Africa which is a non-profit which empowers African students on the continent to create innovative solutions to local challenges which arise due to climate change. As a young leader tackling climate change, Contimi has been selected as a top 40 African German Young Leader 2022 by “Germany – Land of Ideas” and the German Agency of Business and Economic Development. He was also named “Student of the Year 2024” by the German University Association and the German Student Union making him the very first African Student in Germany to get the award.

Alexandra Kodjabachi
Greece/Lebanon/UK | Young Global Changer 2017 & 2021
– YGC AMBASSADOR FOR EUROPE –

Alexandra is the Founder of PersEd, a learning experience design consultancy empowering individuals and organisations through leadership and collective intelligence programmes. Her 140+ collaborations with organisations and individuals from 45+ countries impacted the lives of thousands around the world, including social innovators, SDG entrepreneurs, refugees, peacemakers, and climate activists. Alexandra is also an international public speaker, consultant, and facilitator. Her multidisciplinary pursuits, including a B.A. in Political Science (USJ Beirut and Sciences Po Aix-En-Provence) and an M.Sc. in Educational Neuroscience (UCL and Birkbeck, London), as well as recognitions in leadership, entrepreneurship, literature and the arts, led her to weave disciplines in the service of learning, innovation, and social impact. A change-maker at the core, she has been recognized as MENA Leadership Academy fellow (2016-2017), G20 Young Global Changer (2017 & 2021), Unleash Global Talent (2018), UNESCO APCEIU Youth Leader (2019) and a Peter Drucker Challenge Laureate (top 15) (2023).

Yevgen Lantsuzovskyy
Ukraine | Young Global Changer 2018
– YGC AMBASSADOR FOR EUROPE –

Mr. Yevgen Lantsuzovskyy, Ukrainian campaigns for improving education opportunities for poor, but talented people in Ukraine and believes in potentials of the 21st century.

Eden Tadesse
Ethiopia| Young Global Changer 2023
– YGC AMBASSADOR FOR AFRICA-

Eden Tadesse is an award-winning entrepreneur, digital innovator, journalist and global citizen. She draws on more than 10 years of experience in the nonprofit and private sector across three continents (Africa, Asia and Europe). She is the Founder of Invicta, an award-winning career development platform that connects refugees and internally displaced people with remote work, online courses, mental health support and business development. Invicta currently supports 31,000+ refugees from 87 countries. Eden is passionate about leveraging innovation, sustainability and diversity to create bold and resilient solutions. In her spare time, she enjoys debating politics, learning German, travelling extensively and interviewing guests for her climate podcast. Her professional experience spans across policy, gender equality, social innovation, education, economic development, human rights and program management. She is a recipient of the prestigious Diana Award, a Young Champion for UNHCR, and an African Union Youth Innovator. She earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Information Technology (Cybersecurity) from India.

Sinan Genc
Türkiye | Young Global Changer 2020
– YGC AMBASSADOR FOR THE MIDDLE EAST –

Sinan Genc, is a Research Assistant in Electrical Electronics Engineering at Abdullah Gül University. His PhD research focuses on sensors for environmental applications. Since 2017, he has been attending international events to learn and share today’s applications with his students for a sustainable future. As a young global changer, he aims to create an international network on circular economy, CEMENA-Net, for all stakeholders to achieve sustainable development goals.

Gopal Kumar Mohoto
Bangladesh| Young Global Changer 2022
– YGC AMBASSADOR FOR ASIA –

Gopal Kumar Mohoto is an engineer, entrepreneur and researcher on renewable energy. He is Co-founder and Team Leader of CASSETEX; also Research Director of Advanced Dynamics PTE. LTD. Through research and systems thinking he brings sustainable and innovative solutions for the future of energy and mobility forward. He has been creating energy solutions with just energy transition; through this he is focused on transforming the energy sector away from grid dependence to off-grid, micro-energy and community based distributed energy. With specialism in energy policy, renewable energy, energy storage and electric vehicles Gopal is working to transform to a zero-carbon future through systems innovation, enhancing climate technology adoption, women entrepreneurship and youth capacity building. As a climate activist, he is alumni Climate Ambassador at World Bank Group – GYCN. His recent involvement in environmental processes includes climate action, energy policy advocacy and youth capacity building at United Nations COP26.

Former YGC Ambassadors

Kavindya is a young educator who leverages design, anthropology, and film to reimagine the future of education. She currently works as a Civic Researcher at the MIT Media Lab (in Cambridge, USA) and works as a heads the projects department at the organization "Without Borders". She also runs her own education-based social enterprise, which is a hackathon style leadership accelerator focused on equipping young people in Sri Lanka (aged 14-19) with creative skills in leadership, design thinking and advocacy to become socially conscious young changemakers.

Gina is a part of Minka, a digital platform for sharing knowledge on climate-smart agriculture practices in the global south, specifically aiming at smallholder farmers, as a tool to connect and accelerate a transformation towards a sustainable tomorrow. An initiative to enable a network among farmers and related actors to share their knowledge in a user-friendly manner. Gina, originally from Colombia, holds a MA in Sustainable Resource Management.

Linda Du believes in harnessing the power of information and communications technologies to meet the Sustainable Development Goals.

Abir is a social entrepeneur, organizer, and thought leader on social and economic development, African Affairs, women & youth leadership and global health. She is the founder and CEO of "Inua Naturals", a for-profit company that empowers marginalized women in the developing women through agribusiness and innovation. Abir has served as UNICEF USA’s Community Engagement Fellow.

Sudesh is a Phd student at the South Asian University in New Delhi, India. His project focuses on an alternative governance model of Gross National Happiness apart from Gross Domestic Product for balancing material and immaterial growth through the adaptation of a Middle Path as a mindful route towards development. Middle Path centers around the concept of thought and action where the individual and collective life in the society are linked interdependently. It centers around the concept of Development with Values for recoupling the society, economy while preserving the natural environment.

Sivendra Michael is an international policy development professional with experience in conducting economic analysis, analytical research and quantitative modelling. He also has a profound understanding of the Pacific political and regulatory environment. Prior to joining the British Council, he worked for the Pacific’s Premier Development Institute – the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat and the UN International Labour Organisation. Michael is known for his work in the development sector having contributed to policy development and research output for prestigious networks such as the Global Development Network, Harvard University and the United Nations University Centre for Integrated Studies.

Julian is an entrepreneur from Germany, an initiator of ideas and strives for change. He is the founder of Tomorrow is now and of a second hand business with events in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. After having participated in various leadership programs such as the the Entrepreneurial Leadership Program by the ESCP and the Climate Reality Leader Corps by Al Gore, he is currently doing an MBA Program at the University of Essex.

Nancy is a Go-to-Market Strategist at Adobe and co-founder of “The Pursuit, Global Women for Change”. A former solutions architect designing communications for the U.S. military, and founder of a global Muslim headscarf startup, she is a woman in leadership advocate. She is part of the Leadership California 2020 cohort, a NextGen Leader honoree and recognized as a Leadership scholar at Berkeley-Haas. She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC San Diego, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from San Diego State University, and a M.B.A. from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business. Through “The Pursuit”, her goal is to create a global network of women who support emerging leaders in business and society.

Brianna is a social entrepreneur and law student. Her passion for the profit-purpose model manifested in 2018 when she joined her university colleagues in building Kua, a social enterprise using coffee and new technologies to challenge how businesses think about consumption. Brianna has received numerous accolades for her academic and extra-curricular achievements, including being a 2019 YGC, and was named a Westpac Future Leaders Scholar in 2020. She is currently studying a Master of Human Rights at the University of Sydney.

Nasrat is experienced globally on finding potential in people and organizations to work more efficiently. An ex-World Bank innovation expert; He has founded AWAL, a development firm based out of Washington DC, an mobile platform called ASEEL, a research institute for innovation (ITRCA) and trained dozens of young people through his junior professionals program. He specializes in Tech, Economic Growth, Development, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Nasrat is recognized by the G20, World Bank, ICANN, UNIGF and governments. He has presented in global forums, conferences and is a TEDx speaker.

Shukri is an entrepreneur, investor, film producer, speaker and co-founder and CEO of FORT. He holds a degree in Law and Politics, an Executive MBA, and has the distinction of being an Entrepreneurship Expert at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He is founder of The Rainmakers Journal, a thought leadership platform, and venture capital firm Southfields Group. Shukri has served on a number of boards, is profiled in various publications, and has been named a Top 40 CEO by Under40CEOs, and one of Fast Company’s Most Productive People.

Stephanie E. Trpkov is a strategy consultant at the World Bank in Croatia and the founder of a specialised consultancy firm that designs and implements innovative sustainability projects in the SEE region. She is also an expert advisor at the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) of the European Commission, working on innovative programs in the fields of Energy and Business. She is specialised in digital transformation, smart cities and integrated change management.

Eduarda Zoghbi is a political scientist and current MPA Candidate at Columbia University. She works for the Center on Global Energy Policy supporting the Women in Energy program and at the Institute of Latin American Studies to develop grant proposals towards gender equity. Before pursuing her Master’s degree, she worked as a climate change consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank. Eduarda was recently awarded the Environmental Education 30 Under 30 prize for her efforts to raise awareness to climate change in schools in Brazil and Kenya through the youth-led NGO Engajamundo.

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