Six Youth Speakers Selected for UN PGA's High-level SDG Action Event on Education - 28 June 2017 at UNHQ

At the request of the Office of the President of the General Assembly (OPGA), UN-NGLS conducted a process to identify civil society and social entrepreneur youth speakers for the High-level SDG Action Event on Education, taking place 28 June at UN Headquarters. UN-NGLS facilitated a Stakeholder Selection Committee to review applications for the speaking roles and create a regionally and gender balanced short-list of candidates for the President of the General Assembly to consider.

The President of the General Assembly has now selected the following six speakers through this process:

1) High-level Opening Segment

Saul Mwame

Dct Mvumi Secondary School - United Republic of Tanzania

2) Panel Discussion on Tackling SDG 4: What will it take?

Musarrat Maisha Reza

Be the Peace - Be the Hope - Singapore

3) Ministerial Dialogue on Education in Vulnerable and Humanitarian Emergency Situations

Dor Akech Achiek (respondent)

Settlement Services International - Australia

4) Panel Discussion on Innovation in Education

Muhammad Usman

Centre for Renewable Energy and Action on Climate Change - Nigeria

5) Panel Discussion on Education for Sustainable Development

Sanaya Bharucha

Teach For India - India

6) Lunch Dialogue organized by the Office of the President of the General Assembly and the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP)

Muhamad Iman Usman 

Ruangguru - Indonesia

More information about this process is available here.

More information about the High-level SDG Action Event on Education is available here.