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The Young Global Changers (YGC) program was launched in 2017 to bring together young leaders and visionaries committed to shaping a better future. Between 2017 and 2019, three summer schools were held alongside the annual Global Solutions Summit. Each year, up to 120 young changemakers from around the world were invited to take part in the Summit, with many also participating in the intensive summer school. The program aimed to amplify the voices of the next generation by integrating their insights into global policy discussions. Below is a list of the first three YGC cohorts—many of whom have since gone on to make a lasting impact in their communities and beyond.

From top left to bottom: YGC classes of 2017, 2018, and 2019

Class of 2019

Rita Abualzulof, Palestine
Shakil Ahmed, Bangladesh
Ana Alexieva, Bulgaria
Bashar Algharabeh, Palestine
Maya Almog, Israel
Dalya O M Alnajjar, Palestine
Sweetie Anang, Ghana
Padmanaban Anantha Gopalan, India
Deepak Ashwani, India
Karin Baba, Japan
Lazarous Banda, Zambia
Aram Barra, Mexico
Jose Alberto Barrantes Ceciliano, Costa Rica
Laura Batalla Adam, Spain
Judith Büschleb, Germany
Stéphanie Carbonnelle, Belgium
Florencia Caro Sachetti, Argentina
Camila Carrasco, Chile
Nikhil Anil Chaudhary, India
Kihun Choi, South Korea
Sabina Maria Ciofu, Romania
Rafaela Mae David, Philippines
David Delarive, Switzerland
Eimear Duff, Ireland
Marwin Flores, Bolivia
Noah (Susan) Mirembe Gabigogo (Nalunkuma), Uganda
Léonce Gamai, Benin
Heena Gambhir, India
Mila Harmelink, Netherlands
Yassine Harzallah, Tunisia
Falmata Hassane Awada, Chad
Johannes Hausmann, Germany
Andreas Holzinger, Germany
Abir Ibrahim, Sudan
Aderoke Ige, Nigeria
Judicaelle Irakoze, Burundi
Idil Ires, Turkey
Sumbal Javed, Hong Kong
Feten Jerbi, Tunisia
Ayaz Kado, Iraq
Rachana Kanakagiri, India
Jawhratelkmal Kanu, Sudan
Priyanka Kapar, Nepal
Melodi Kaya, Turkey
Rachel Kelly, Ireland
Brianna Kerr, Australia
Ahmad Khairudin, Indonesia
Shougat Nazbin Khan, Bangladesh
Amine Kharrat, Tunisia
Nina Yasline Koffi, Ivory Coast
Mariam Laghundaridze, Georgia
Busang Davies Maruping, Botswana
Lety Maylix Melgen Bello, Dominican Republic
Rika Mitsuhashi, Japan
Mercedes Monzon Egana, Argentina
Daniela Muhaj, Albania
Backtosch Mustafa, Germany
Dhouha Nasri, Tunisia
Marlon Ochoa, Honduras
Daniel Ominde Okoth, Kenya
Edward O’Loughlin, Ireland
Marion Osieyo, United Kingdom
Han Htoo Khant Paing, Myanmar
Illimani Patino Giraldo, Colombia
José António Perez Rojas Mariano de Azevedo, Brazil
Tsetsegbadam Purevsuren, Mongolia
Bongekile Radebe, South Africa
Lalaina Albertine Randriarimanana, Madagascar
Fadoua Rhazoui, Morocco
Flavia Röhrs, Germany
Brenda Rolemberg de Lima, Brazil
Anja-Therese Salomon, Austria
Dragan Sekulovski, Macedonia
Anika Shahjabin, Bangladesh
Nabeel Siddiqui, Pakistan
Alice Sparks, United Kingdom
Julia Steinhauer, Germany
Leon Surmann, Germany
Kavindya Thennakoon, Sri Lanka
Adrian Toth, Hungary
David Alejandro Trejo Pizzo, Argentina
Stephanie Ekaette Trpkov, Croatia
Minerva Valier Camacho, Mexico
Alejandra van der Biest, Venezuela
Alejandra Garza Viejo, Mexico
Anna Volc, Canada
Sarah Wahby, Egypt
Alex Wake, United Kingdom
Hongyu Wang, China

Class of 2018

María Belén Abdala, Argentina
Stephen Adler, USA
Olukayode Alao, Nigeria
Constantin Alexander, Germany
Ioannis Alexiou, Greece
Francisco Javier Ardila Suarez, Colombia
Fátima Ávila Acosta, Mexico
Oyuna Baldakova, Russia
Leonard Becker, Germany
Antonio Benina, Italy
Julian Bents, Germany
Manuel Berger, Switzerland
Jill Beytin, USA
Bruno Binetti, Argentina
Bilge Bingöl-Schrijer, Turkey
Valentina Caracci, Italy
Ashish Chaturvedi, India
Jonas Córdova Gómez, Chile
Heloisa Coutinho Calmon Nogueira da Gama, Brazil
Karen Coyle, Ireland
Viola Julia Csordas, Germany
Francesco Cusimano, Italy
Kapal Dev, Pakistan
Swati Mehta Dhawan, India
Cetin Didem Fulya, Turkey
Linda Du, United Kingdom
Heba Elhanafy, Egypt
Ahmed Elsayed, Egypt
Anja Fahlenkamp, Germany
Greta Joseffa Lou Frank, Germany
Nehle Frerick, Germany
Syeda Aisha Furrukh, Pakistan
Yujie Gan, China
Eden Gebregiorgis, USA
Kiden Gladys Robert Isaiah, South Sudan
Juan Gowland, Argentina
Mayra Hartmann, Germany
Felipe Hinojosa-Prado, Germany
Katharina Hock, Germany
Ciaran Hopkins, Ireland
Nancy Hoque, USA
Jacob Oyindamola Johnson, Nigeria
Prem Raj Joshi, Nepal
Ika Juliana, Indonesia
Natasha Israt Kabir, Bangladesh
Naga Venkata Sindhuja Kanteti, India
Pradeep Khanal, Nepal
Diana Koppelt, Germany
Ksenija Korolova, Latvia
Nidhal Lamrauoi, Algeria
Yevgen Lantsuzovskyy, Ukraine
Chenchao Liu, Germany
Anatoly Logunov, Australia
Steffen Lohrey, Germany
Chloe Ludden, France
Varun Manthapuri, India
Colm McCormak, Ireland
Annegret Meinel, Germany
Christopher Meyer-Mölleringhof, Germany
Shota Miura, Japan
Darina Mohamad, Poland
Uchenna Moka-Solana, USA
Maria Azucena Moran Tobar, Guatemala
Phumzile Mtshali, South Africa
Ivan Murillo, Colombia
Vinay Murudi, India
Katharina Naumann, Germany
Yelena Novikova, Kazakhstan
Leonis Petschmann, Germany
Peter Plötner, Germany
Luiz Miguel Queiroz Galvâo, Brazil
Simon Rabaa, Germany
Tassia Rabelo de Pinho, Brazil
Ashish Rauniyar, Norway
Serge Reh, Germany
Blake Richardson, New Zealand
Ashleigh Robbie, Ireland
Jeff Rodríguez, Costa Rica
Anna Romandash, Ukraine
Aaron Scheid, Germany
Elisabeth Schmit, Luxembourg
Johanna Schwarz, Germany
Amelia Scivier, United Kingdom
Christoph Senft, Germany
Young-Hyun Shin, South Korea
Tobias Simonis, Switzerland
Carlos Siri, USA
Eduardo Sotelo, Peru
Jonathan Stöterau, Germany
Michael Strautmann, Germany
Evelyne Tauchnitz, Switzerland
Shriya Thakkar, India
Shukri Toefy, South Africa
Charis Uster, Germany
Erik-Jan van Workum, Netherlands
Colin von Negenborn, Germany
Josh (Yuling) Wang, Canada
Peter Wang, USA
Sebastian Woller, Germany
Wen Jun Wong, Malaysia
Xinming Xia, China
Lily Emma Young, Germany
Lina Zdruli, Albania
Qinqin Zhang, China
Eduarda Zoghbi, Brazil

Class of 2017

Mays Abdel Aziz, Jordan
Khaled Abo Shady, Egypt
Elorm Esi Abusah, Ghana
Chukwuemelie Precious Akanonu, Nigeria
Giresse Akono Gantsui, Congo
Babatunde Alawode, Nigeria
Sajida Alhaj, Qatar
Khusniddin Alikulov, Uzbekistan
Aigerim Almazova, Kyrgyzstan
Yousef Alshammari, Saudi Arabia
Maroua Baba, Morocco
Nabil Badjri, Indonesia
Bilge Bingöl Schrijer, Turkey
Rim Hayat Chaif, Algeria
Koon Hong Chan, Hong Kong
Necola Charles, St. Kitts / West Indies
Lianhua Chi, China
Anesa Colakovic, Serbia
Francisco Jose Cordoba Otalora, Colombia
Eduardo Cordova, El Salvador
Silvia Da Rosa, Uruguay
Meron Eresso, Ethiopia
Kenneth Ashley Fullerton, South Africa
Carla Ximena Giraldo Malca, Peru
Juan Gowland, Argentina
Gustavo Guimaraes, Brazil
Shobari Guterres Nunes, Timor-Leste
Austin Halbert, USA
Soumaya Harbaoui, Tunisia
Rahaf Harfoush, France
Benjamin David Hennig, Germany
Juan Jose Herrera, Ecuador
Naonori Hu, Japan
Christine De Siree Jodloman, Philippines
Chiedza Daneek Nobhule Kambasha, Zimbabwe
Lazare Kambire, Burkina Faso
Kelly Kapianga, Zambia
Tamara Karelidze, Georgia
Elena Karyavkina, Russia
Nasrat Khalid, Afghanistan
Niki Kilbertus, Austria
Kondi Komi-Kpandja Nusianunyo, Togo
Oleg Komlik, Israel
Alexandra Kotzapasoglou Kalpatzoglou, Lebanon
Ahouty Kouakou, Ivory Coast
Aditya Kulkarni, India
Paul Lam, United Kingdom
Matias Lastra, Argentina
David Lawless, Canada
Hilda Liswani, Namibia
Elle Loughran, Ireland
Nolana Lynch, Trinidad and Tobago
Tiotsop Maurice, Cameroon
Chao Mbogo, Kenya
Agnes Gabriela Medinaceli Baldivieso, Bolivia
Sivendra Michael, Fiji
Dominic Mills-Howell, Jamaica
James Guo Sheng Moo, Singapore
Ramon Orlando Moreno De Jesus, Dominican Republic
Umaiyal Munusamy, Malaysia
Davis Musinguzi, Uganda
Balazs Nemethi, Hungary
Navam Niles, Sri Lanka
Mary-Jean Nleya, Botswana
Yelena Novikova, Kazakhstan
Arianna Oddo, Belgium
Diego Oyarzun, Chile
Binod Prasad Parajuli, Nepal
Christoforos Pavlakis, Greece
Hanna Pazniak, Belarus
Shahida Pervin, Bangladesh
Dat Pham, Vietnam
Mona Poorzady, Iran
Ignacio Rodriguez, Venezuela
Jeff Rodriguez, Costa Rica
Francisco Rojo, Spain
Anna Romandash, Ukraine
Maam Suwadu Sakho-Jimbira, Senegal
Htet Thiri Shwe, Myanmar
Evelyne Tauchnitz, Switzerland
Duroseme Taylor, Gambia
Veronika Tomova, Macedonia
Liina Tonisson, Estonia
Catia Trubiani, Italy
Pontso Tsoeunyane, Lesotho
Betty Tushabe, Rwanda
Harry Viderot, Benin
Fonthip Watcharaporn, Thailand
William Yan, Australia
Lina Zdruli, Albania
Jan Jakub Zygmuntowski, Poland