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Engaging youth in the sustainable agenda is essential to the emergence of shared values and perspectives among the young people in various parts of the world. In this new post-Covid reality, it falls on the young leaders and entrepreneurs to continue to advance collaborative and tangible efforts needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the UN. How can we promote global youth synergies to reach confident collaborations by 2050? Who and how will ensure the selection and funding of the best Russian and global practices, bringing them to tangible implemented projects in the areas of social entrepreneurship, education, and other Sustainable Development Goals? How to mobilize resources to create and promote multilateral economic and humanitarian cooperation projects for international youth?

Moderator
Roman Chukov, Chairman of the Board, Russian Center for the Promotion of International Initiatives

Roman Chukov

Chairman of the Board, Russian Center for the Promotion of International Initiatives

Panellists
Yulia Mihaleva, Deputy Director, Russian Quality System (Roskachestvo)
Sharifah Norizah, Chief Executive Officer, Asian Youth Network Resources, Regional Caucus Coordinator, Major Group for Children and Youth (MGCY)
Ilya Razbash, Director, Information and Analysis Center for the Development of the Water Management Complex
Gonaya Monei Sethora, CEO, BUSINESS WOMAN AFRICA
Vyacheslav Fetisov, Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Goodwill Ambassador, The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Chairman, All-Russian Society of Nature Conservation
John Aggrey, Founder, Chief Executive Officer, HIRED Consult; Member of "Friends for Leadership"

Yulia Mihaleva

Deputy Director, Russian Quality System (Roskachestvo)

Ilya Razbash

Director, Information and Analysis Center for the Development of the Water Management Complex

Vyacheslav Fetisov

Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Goodwill Ambassador, The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Chairman, All-Russian Society of Nature Conservation

Viacheslav Alexandrovich “Slava” Fetisov is a retired professional ice hockey defenseman and coach who earned two Stanley Cups during his time as a player and one as coach with the NHL. He also earned two Olympic gold medals, one silver and one bronze during his hockey career as both a player for the Soviet national team and as manager for the Russian national team. Slava is a currently an acting member of the State Duma of Russia—one of the two bodies that make up the Russian Federal Assembly. After the 2002 Winter Olympics, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered him the position as Minister of Sport, a post he held until 2008. Fetisov has become passionate about polar conservation and was a formidable advocate on behalf of the Ross Sea within Russia with a commitment to work for long-term protections through a network of marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean. In 2018 he was appointed UN Environment Patron for Polar Regions.

Front row participants
Dmitry Ioffe, Founder, Interregional Public Organization of Ecological and Patriotic Education "Clean Games"
Anton Pashkov, Executive Advisor, Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh)