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Mr. Chyngyz Esengul uulu is currently the Deputy Minister of Culture, Information, Sport and Youth Policy of the Kyrgyz Republic. Prior to this, Mr. Chyngyz Esengul uulu served in various positions within the Kyrgyz Republic government, including as Press Secretary of the Prime Minister and as an Attache for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Chyngyz Esengul uulu has also worked in media as a News Lead and Executive Editor for the National Broadcasting Corporation.

Mr. Chyngyz Esengul uulu received a degree in International Relations from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic and a degree in Accounting, Analysis, and Audit from Kyrgyz National University named after J. Balasagyna.

Special Representative to the UN and Director of the ILO Office for the United Nations since the 1st of June 2020. Prior to her appointment to lead the ILO Office in New York, she worked as the Chief of the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Branch, based at the ILO in Geneva. 

Ms. Andrees played a key role in the launch and consolidation of Alliance 8.7 - a multi-stakeholder partnership to end forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking and child labour in line with SDG target 8.7. She was also the ILO’s lead focal point in the organisation of the IV Global Conference for the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour, hosted by Argentina in 2017. In 2013-2014, as head of the ILO’s Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour, she coordinated efforts which led to the adoption of the 2014 Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention (1930). She also occupied senior advisory roles in ILO Secretariats leading to the adoption of Resolutions on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in 2012 and 2017 and represented the ILO in numerous UN mechanisms, initiatives and conferences. In her previous capacity, she oversaw the implementation of the ILO’s flagship programme on child labour and forced labour, covering more than 60 countries across the world, and developed the vision and strategies for the ILO’s Business Networks on child labour and forced labour. She also supported the launch of the Equal Pay International Coalition. 

Ms. Andrees studied Political Science and History in Jena, Toronto and Berlin. She holds a master’s degree from the Freie University of Berlin. She also passed her PhD exam with a focus on international labour recruitment and governance and authored various articles and books in the areas of migration, trafficking, labour market governance and supply chains. Prior to joining the ILO in 2003, she worked on special assignments for the public relations department of the German Parliament and lectured at the Freie University on gender, human rights and development.

Ms. Andrees is from Berlin, Germany.

Sinead Bovell is a futurist and the founder of WAYE, a tech education company that prepares youth for the future of work and life with advanced technologies, with a focus on non-traditional and minority markets. To date, Sinead has educated over 10,000 young entrepreneurs on the future of technology, and was recently recognized by Wired Magazine for working to bring ‘new faces to the table in tech,’ and was named one of Refinery29’s Top Ten Black Women Changing the Game. Prior to founding WAYE, Sinead completed the MBA from the University of Toronto and worked as a management consultant for A.T. Kearney.

Karimot Odebode is a lawyer and poet from Ibadan Nigeria. She is the founder and project lead of the Black Girl’s Dream Initiative (BGDI),  a youth-led organisation that promote Education and Gender Equality through Arts, Advocacy, Research, Technology and Sports. Karimot was a key contributor to the Transform Education summit at the United Nations Headquarter in New York where she co-presented the Youth Declaration on transforming Education at the 77th United Nations General Assembly. Karimot is one of the 17 SDGs Young Leaders from across the world recognized by the United Nations. She has performed at several high level meetings and conferences. Karimot created the Transform Education anthem for the United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI), and has been featured by Global Education Summit, Plan International, BBC Media Africa, International Telecommunications Union, UNICEF amongst others. Karimot is a Generation Connect Africa Youth envoy for the International Telecommunication Union. She was recognized by the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Oyo State Government as one of the 100 most influential young people for her work in advocacy. Karimot is the author of 'a woman has many names', a poetry collection with 107 poems.

Since 2010, Margianta has been engaged in local and global development networks, particularly on youth participation, global health, and social justice. His experience ranged from grassroot works to high level advocacy. Margianta started in high school as a Children Forum facilitator from 2010-2015. He then co-initiated the Youth Movement for FCTC in 2015 and Indonesian Youth Council for Tobacco Control in 2021 to advocate for tobacco control in the midst of health inequities. In 2018-2020, Margianta led the Young Health Programme at Lentera Anak Foundation to promote healthy lifestyle and improve grassroot primary healthcare through youth-led actions. He also founded Emancipate Indonesia in 2017 to advocate workers’ rights and tackle social inequities, and joined UNFPA Youth Advisory Panel in 2019 to promote Comprehensive Sexuality Education. Margianta has spoken on events such as One Young World 2018, TEDx in 2019 and 2021, World Health Summit 2021, and Nobel Prize Dialogue 2022.

Margianta recent works include his role as a Council Member for an international mental health initiative hosted by Challenges Canada called Being, and his expertise as a UNICEF consultant for adolescent health and youth engagement in policy-making and youth-led actions with deep analysis on social, economic, and political lenses of lower-middle income countries (LMICs). Margianta aims to bridge the grassroot communities and the high-level policy makers in Indonesia through research, campaign, and advocacy so both can have meaningful partnerships amidst social inequities.

Globally acclaimed social innovator, designer, and educator, Cameron “Cam” Flowers is not only an advocate for the use of technology for the social good, he actively empowers people with the confidence and curiosity to create sustainable change in technology enriched ways. Specializing in the research and design of innovation ecosystems, Cam works to advise business and civic leaders on the necessary imperatives for sustainable growth and impact in a technologically advanced world.

Through his work as CEO of Floreo Labs he has contributed to national innovation ecosystem expansion through initiatives like the New York City Tech Talent Pipeline, the Mozilla Foundation’s Responsible Computing Initiative, and the Dream.Org TECH program (formerly #YESWECODE) among others while serving as a member of the faculty for Computer Science at Lehman College and as a founding member of several startups focused on transforming the internet.

He has professionally trained engineers from diverse-backgrounds to technical jobs at major companies like: Target, Workday, and IBM and has provided tech advisory to many women and minority owned businesses across the world. He is an active proponent of community-centered design, and uses his work to forward conversations on diversity, equity and inclusion worldwide promoting innovation and entrepreneurship led by communities currently underrepresented in technology.

Antonia works in policy & project management with a focus on feminist development policy at the ONE Campaign, an international NGO fighting extreme poverty. Prior to joining ONE, she was the Strategic Advisor to the Executive Director of the Center for Feminist Foreign Policy where she managed projects on transatlantic relations, peace and security, and feminist international law. She has worked in a variety of human rights-related fields, including legal research with a focus on genocide prevention at Berkeley Law School and Stanford Law School for Professor Dr. Beth Van Schaack, the current U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice. She is also the Development Director of [gather], a non-profit focused on building women leaders, a Europe Youth Envoy for the United Nations ITU and a regular contributor to different news outlets writing about foreign-, security-, development-, and digital policy from a feminist perspective.

Rabiya is a young Assistant Secretary General of the Federation with six years of experience in advocacy and awareness raising for employers and communities in creating workplaces and education decent and accessible for all, free from all forms of violence and harassment. She is a fierce supporter of Education, especially for young girls in marginalized communities, and has spoken for their rights and inclusion at Youth @ Heart Virtual Forum 2020 the launch of Global Survey Youth & COVID, and World Youth Skills Day 2021. 
She has contributed to the advocacy and policy work of the Federation on decent work for all, social protection, and disability inclusion at the workplace including the formalization of domestic and home-based workers. She is also a defender of gender equality from the intersectional lens and spoke about the application of intersectional perspective as a tool for non-discrimination at the 51st Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. 
Rabiya is further engaged in various global initiatives as a Member of the Youth Advisory Group of the Green Jobs for Youth Pact, the IOE Policy Working Group Gender Equality and Diversity, and the Private Sector Leadership Working Group of Global Youth Employment Opportunities Summit-YEO 2030 Initiative.