Official Imagine if… Schedule
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The following events are part of the Imagine if… official Festival. Some events are third party organised by friends of Imagine if… and our amazing community, and therefore Imagine if… is not responsible for the content and material included in them. We will be attending these events ourselves, and look forward to seeing you there!
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ONE YOUNG WORLD: Reimagining Impact & Action: Young Leaders Tackling Global Challenges
March 9, 2022 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm GMT
In this panel session, hear how young leaders are reimagining a better future for us all, and how their impactful initiatives are making a real and lasting difference in tackling a range of global challenges.
Speakers
Ibijoke
Ibijoke is a tri-sector leader and development professional with cross-cutting experience across policy, gender, government affairs, strategic communications& partnerships, international trade and investment advisory, development project management and non-profit management. She is theFounder & CEO of ElectHER; a party agnostic non-profit organization addressing the underrepresentation of women in politics through behavioural change communications, community building, capacity development and increased access to social, human, financial and technological capital. Ahead of the 2023general elections, amongst other activities, ElectHER is raising non-partisan funds and building tech platforms to directly support progressive female candidates. Prior to this, she led trade & investment relations across non-oil & gas sectors for the BritishGovernment across West Africa, pioneered and chaired the Women’s Network for same organization. Led Business development and government relations across East and WestAfrica for Paris-based publication-The Africa Report.She is a Global Leadership CouncilMember of the Democracy and Culture Foundation – a philanthropic affiliation of The NewYork Times, a 2019 One Young World Dutch MFA scholar and a 2019 Public ServiceNominee for The Future Awards Africa. Ibijoke is passionate about gender equity, social innovation, and diaspora engagement.
Zubair
Zubair is an educational activist, social entrepreneur, and founder of ZNotes – an online learning platform he started at 16 and today, has reached over 3.5 million students globally. He is the recipient of theDiana Legacy Award-the “highest accolade a young person can receive for their social and humanitarian efforts”. Zubair is a One Young World ambassador, advisory board member ofDEFI at Cambridge University and the EY Foundation as well as National Youth Leader of theGlobal Partnership for Education. AnSDG advocate, he has been published and spoken internationally including the74th UNGeneral Assembly,ITU Regional Innovation Forum and the TEDx stage. Holding aMaster’s in Mathematics from UCL, Zubair is a marathon runner, triathlete and inline/figure skater.