| Young Leaders from Leeds University Business School at One Young World conference |
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| Three Young Leaders from Leeds University Business School join the One Young World conference |
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23.02.2010, Leeds Business School, 18 February |
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Three of our talented undergraduates just attended the first ever One Young World conference, the young Davos for future leaders...
Armed with intellect, passion, and the power of social media, 650 young people from over 100 countries came together in London from 8th to 10th February, to discuss the most challenging issues in the world today: Climate Change, Global Health, Interfaith Dialogue, Global Business, Media, and the Environment. Each topic discussion results in a resolution and a call for action, with delegates promising to work in their societies to bring change and make a difference. Inspirational speakers like Desmond Tutu, Bob Geldoff, Wyclef Jean, Clarence Seedorf, Boris Johnson, galvanised the delegates during the conference.
Leeds University Business School selected and sponsored Simon Fowell, Shaun Proud, and Phuong Nguyen, as delegates. The Business School is a founding sponsor in this exciting project because our role in the world is to develop the knowledge and skills of young people from across the world, so they can become leaders and make a positive impact in their societies.
We hope that other Business Schools will follow our lead as the first English Business School to sponsor the One Young World Event.
Here’s what Simon Fowell reported:
“The founders, David Jones and Kate Robertson, had been working on this for two years, and with some of the names on the bill there was no surprise. It’s not often you get Bob Geldof, Kofi Annan, Desmond Tutu and Mohammed Yunus in one room. The format of the summit was that one of the councillors, whether it be the straight-talking Geldof, Hilarious Tutu, passionate Yunus, or composed Kofi, would give a speech on one of the topics. Although very different in styles, they all gave the same message, which was the world needs to change and the young generation are the ones to do it, we are a unique generation with so much power literally at our fingertips. “
“6 delegates would also speak on each topic, then the floor could have its say. Delegates spoke with enormous amounts of energy and passion, there was an electric atmosphere in the Excel Centre in London, and there was a real sense of excitement that we are able to help change the future. Resolutions for each topic were made, which we all voted on. They demanded that, for example, governments extend their help to developing countries or, extend and stick to targets for carbon reduction. To many they seemed like obvious resolutions, but our work isn’t finished just yet, these resolutions will be refined over the coming weeks then sent off to policy-makers to show the support of young people towards such issues. “
“Not only was it a success in that all resolutions were passed, there were some fantastic outcomes from the summit. It is rare to get so many talented young people from all around the globe in one room, and their passion and openness was taken advantage of. A OYW African Network has now been set up, along with a OYW LATITUDE (Latin America) as well as an OYW India-Pakistan group. These were established by the young people, and will keep in contact over social networking sites to spread the message of the summit to their respective countries, and to generate ideas as well as fostering important future relationships. After the closing ceremony, although everyone was sad that we had to go, we all knew there was an important job to be done. We took away the very important message: act local, think global.”
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