government to represent Morocco as an International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) delegate in September 2013. Mohamed is very involved with his local community and has become a frequent TEDx speaker across Morocco. He also helped found the Start up Your life initiative, helping to build the right ecosystem for Moroccan entrepreneurs and startups. Mohamed was recently selected as a Global Shaper for the Casablanca hub by the World Economic Forum.

Meriem is a member of the Quebec Lawyers Abroad and the Quebec Bar associations. She completed her bachelor of laws (LL.B.) at the University of Montreal in 2008 and her diploma of collegial studies with honors in the law and society profile at Dawson College in 2005.

In 2012, Bruce was selected as one of the British Council’s top 60 Global Change Makers. In 2013, he was listed in the World Bank’s top five most prominent young people from Latin America and Africa and called one of South Africa’s “movers and shakers” by the Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS. He has also spoken extensively on capitalizing on Africa’s demographic dividend at local and international forums. Bruce studied media and youth development.

As vice president of the Comexi Youth Program, she and the program’s president have designed and launched an international relations blog, a bilingual magazine, and an international security and a financial/economic bulletin. She is a regular contributor to the international bulletin México en el Mundo since 2007 and has written for many international publications. She completed her graduate degree in international relations at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in 2010.

She has an interest in social, political, and economic development in Angola. Croese has carried out extensive research concerning the dynamics of local governance and postwar urban development for her doctorate thesis as well as previous research assignments.

He has been an ambassador of the International Young Leaders Foundation in Uruguay since 2012. Santiago attends ORT University and will obtain his degree in international studies in 2014.

In 2010, she was selected for a two-year term as youth advisor of the World Federation of UN Associations. Since 2011, she has been an Ashoka fellow as well as a fellow for TED associate, INK. During 2012, Dina was awarded with the Women’s Mexican National Award for philanthropy, named Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum, and Cordes Fellow for Opportunity Collaboration. Currently, she is the director of the UN Youth Association in Mexico with two education programs: Deport-es para Compartir (Sports for Sharing) and Iniciativas para Compartir (Initiatives for Sharing).

This project led her to create a coworking space in Casablanca, which has become a venue to promote start-ups and knowledge sharing, a place for learning, networking and to facilitate business conversations. They have started projects with local start-ups, providing them with a work location and space collaboration. She plans to take part in the creation of the start-up ecosystem and social business in Morocco.

An International Relations practitioner with 11 years of experience working for the Government of Jamaica, her areas of specialization include coordination of bilateral and multilateral negotiations, documentation of trade policies and analysis of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) issues in the context of the ACP-EU partnership. She holds an honors master’s degree in international politics and an honors bachelor’s degree in international relations/public administration/gender studies.

Amadou is responsible for organizing the international hip hop and urban culture festival, Festa2H, and is a director of Hip Hop Akademy. Licensed in management organizations, Amadou attended higher education courses in cultural management in Germany and in Dakar. At the British Council, he hosted conferences on Brazil and Mauritania concerning urban cultures. In 2010, he was appointed national commissioner in charge of urban cultures for the festival Fesman in Senegal.