Y7 2021: PARTICIPANT GUIDE Participant Guide Y7 2021 DELEGATES AND YOUTH FORUM 1 Y7 2021: PARTICIPANT GUIDE Contents Delegates 4 Canada 5 France 6 Germany 7 Italy 8 Japan 9 United Kingdom 10 United States 11 EU 12 Australia Youth Forum 14 United Kingdom Contact 2 Y7 2021: DELEGATES SECTION 1 Delegates 3 Y7 2021: DELEGATES Canada CANADA Climate and the Environment CANADA Digital and Technology SHE/HER SHE/HER Carla-Anide Mojann Zibapour Guillaume Passionate about international cooperation, sustainability, and Mojann Zibapour holds a Master of Global Affairs from the Munk technology, Carla Guillaume is dedicated to making our global vil- School at the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Political Science lage a better place for future generations. She is currently working in the bilingual program from the University of Ottawa. Currently, as research assistant for the International Training Program in she is an Advocacy & Events Specialist at the Institute for Canadian Development Evaluation where she monitors gender integration, Citizenship (ICC) working on matters of inclusion, diversity, and the effectiveness and sustainability of development programs in fran- active citizenship. In partnership with Immigration, Refugees and cophone Africa and Haiti. Carla has completed an undergraduate Citizenship Canada, she works to host enhanced citizenship ceremo- degree in Political Science from Concordia University and is currently nies across the country in every province and territory. Prior to joining pursuing a Master of Public Administration at the École nationale the ICC, she held positions at Rideau Hall for the Office of the Secretary d’administration publique du Québec (ENAP). She has received of the Governor General of Canada and the Ministry of Infrastructure an Emerging Talent Award from the Bar of Montreal and through on both west-coast operations and disaster mitigation projects. her leadership and community involvement, continues to be com- Additionally, she worked at Swisspeace, a think-tank and NGO in Bern, mitted to social issues like environmental justice, inclusion and gender focusing mainly on matters of peacekeeping and transitional justice. equality. Alongside her academic and professional accomplishments, Finally, she is fluent in English, French, Farsi (Persian) and Spanish. Carla is also the editor of an online publication called SAYASPORA, a platform for young African women worldwide, and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Shapers hub of Montreal. CANADA Economy CANADA Health HE/HIM THEY/THEM Rahul Pallan Erika Dupuis Rahul is a Master's Candidate in International Affairs and Global Erika is a practicing Registered Social Worker in the greater Toronto Cyber Security at King's College London. His experience includes area. Passionate about community education and youth engage- several years at the Organization for Economic Cooperation ment, Erika has supported several youth-led organizations aimed and Development in Washington D.C. in support of the Office of the at advancing youth health equity. Erika has contributed to multiple Secretary-General, and Director of the OECD Washington Centre. Rahul projects at local, federal, and international levels with expertise has served on delegations to the World Bank & IMF, United Nations in education, food justice, harm reduction, alternative youth jus- General Assembly, and government institutions across Canada and the tice, and sexual and reproductive health. Erika is a current Leading United States. Throughout his career, he has learned the importance Social Justice Fellow with the University of Toronto and United Way of engaging stakeholders across several policy areas to create a and recently completed a Post-Master's Certificate with New York sustainable and inclusive road map for the future. More recently, University. Erika is a graduate of the Master and Bachelor of Social Rahul completed an international graduate traineeship at the U.S. Work programs at Ryerson University where they conducted original Department of State, working on the bilateral trade relationship research on harm reduction and health equity in Toronto. between the United States and Canada. His growing presence in the multilateral sphere has allowed him to share the youth perspective at high-level global gatherings, including the Civil Society 20 Summit in Saudi Arabia and this year under the Italian presidency. Rahul continues to work across engagement groups to the G7 and G20. He is also active with the OECD Forum Network and several OECD initiatives including the OECD Future of Work campaign, as a trusted young advocacy leader. 4 Y7 2021: DELEGATES France FRANCE Climate and the Environment FRANCE Digital and Technology SHE/HER HE/HIM Clara Azarian Noé Michalon Clara Azarian, 24, comes from a multicultural family and she grew up in Noé Michalon, 27, was born and grew up in Ardèche (Southern Feucherolles, a small town not very far from Versailles, in the South-West France) before following higher studies in Paris. Since 2019, he lives of Paris. She is now an engineer from the « Corps des ponts, eaux et in Nairobi, Kenya, where he works as a political analyst. A former forêts » which is related to the French Ministry of Ecological Transition journalist focusing on energy in Africa (Africa Intelligence), he studied and Ministry of Agriculture and Food. She has gained a generalist and political science, journalism, international relations, and African Studies solid scientific background in mathematics, physics and chemistry from in France (Sciences Po) and the United Kingdom (Oxford). He also her studies at Ecole Polytechnique in France from 2016 to 2019. During spent a year working as a press attaché at the Embassy of France in her 6-month internship at La Fondation des Apprentis d’Auteuil, she Uganda and a year covering the 2015 presidential elections in Côte worked as an educator to accompany troubled teenagers through their d’Ivoire for an Ivorian press agency, Alerte Info. He had interning and academic and/or social hardships: this experience was really important as freelancing experiences for other French media outlets, such as Le it sensibilized her to social issues and to the importance of education. As Monde, La Croix, France Télévision and Clique TV. Some of his works part of her engineering studies, she also did a research internship at CSIRO, focused on parliamentarism and media narratives in Gabon and Kenya. Ocean & Atmosphere in Hobart, Australia about the use of environmental Noé is particularly interested by issues pertaining to environment DNA for detecting population structure in the marine environment and global inequalities, two domains deeply linked to the current which led to a publication. Last year she specialized in Oceanography COVD-19 pandemic and its devastating consequences. Alongside at the University of Southampton in the UK where she did her research with his fellow delegates, he sees in the Y7 a unique opportunity to project on marine nature-based solutions, since she is fascinated by the convey and defend some of their generation’s most pressing claims ocean world, its richness and potential from both a scientific and public before global leaders who have the power to change and improve policy point of view. As part of her current formation in public policy for the situation. Beyond this event, he is committed to support at his sustainable development at AgroParisTech and Ecole des Ponts Paris scale further changes in favour of more inclusive, democratic and Tech in France, she is currently doing an internship at the French Ministry socially fair societies. In his free time, Noé is volunteering for SAYes, of Europe and Foreign Affairs about biodiversity related issues such as a Cape Town-based NGO offering mentoring sessions to young South the current negotiations around the protection of marine biodiversity Africans. Noé is fond of literature and poetry (he decently attempts in areas beyond national jurisdiction. She is passionate about music and to write some), football (he modestly attempts to play some) and theatre: she was president of the drama club at Ecole Polytechnique. tennis (he is sincerely not attempting anything). She reached the brown belt in judo/jujitsu and is fond of basket-ball. FRANCE Economy FRANCE Health SHE/HER HE/HIM Gabrielle Rousseau Rycahel Eric Andriana Gabrielle Rousseau, 23, is a Master student at HEC Paris and at Rycahel Eric Andriana, 19, is a 2nd year student in double degree: the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston, where she is Political Sciences-Philosophy at Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University. studying business as well as development economics and international From Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, he flew directly to Paris for affairs. Her professional experience stems both from the public stacking the odds in his favour. He studied during 17 years in Reunion and the private sectors, leading her to work in Sovereign Advisory, Island, sharing his life between creole and malagasy cultures, due counselling developing countries on debt restructuring, public infra- to his two malagasy parents. There, he developed eclectic hobbies, structure investment, and sovereign rating, amid the pandemic crisis. such as taking part in chess competitions, playing many instruments Reconnecting with her dual Franco-Chinese origin, she is learning in music groups, discovering the joy of biology, French, philosophy or Chinese and wishes to continue working on development issues discovering many sports demanding