The next generation of world leaders, in session.
Young United World Leaders is the youth institution of United World Leaders. Its members learn from former Presidents and Prime Ministers, lead projects of their own, and deliberate as Delegates of the Young World Parliament.
An institution for leaders who have not yet held office
Most leadership programs end when the course does. Young UWL is built to last: a standing community with its own Parliament, its own record, and a direct line to the people who have governed nations.
Learn from those who led
Presidents, Prime Ministers, ambassadors, and leaders of family offices and multinational institutions, in webinars, summits and written Counsel.
Run your own projects
Start an initiative, recruit other Young Leaders to it, and grow it with the support of the United World Leaders network.
Sit in the Parliament
Table Motions, sit on a Standing Committee, and vote in recorded Divisions whose Resolutions go to United World Leaders.
Young World Leader Awards
Outstanding initiatives receive international recognition, media visibility and a place on the program of the United World Leaders Summits.
Those who have governed, with those who will.
No other institution of former Heads of State sits beside a standing, deliberative body of young people. In Young UWL the generations meet as counsel and colleagues, not as speakers and audience.
Andres Pastrana
Fmr. President of Colombia
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
Fmr. President of Mauritius
Vicente Fox Quesada
Fmr. President of Mexico
Joyce Hilda Banda
Fmr. President of Malawi
Ivo Josipović
Fmr. President of Croatia
Macky Sall
Fmr. President of Senegal
Andrej Kiska
Fmr. President of Slovakia
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano
Fmr. President of Ecuador
How the Young World Parliament works
Every Resolution passes the same six gates. Nothing is decided by volume, and nothing is changed after the text is frozen.
Table
Five co-sponsors from three Regional Benches.
Consult
The whole Community responds: agree, disagree or pass.
Committee
Marked up and reported with a Rapporteur's report.
Freeze
Amendments close; the text is fixed for debate.
Divide
A recorded vote, sealed until the close.
Transmit
Published in the Gazette, sent to a UWL Council.
Figures from the Simulation Session. The Parliament's Roll, Motions and results are fictional until it is formally constituted.
What you can lead
Young Leaders initiate projects and invite others to join them. Some of the directions members have taken:
Climate and resilience
Community environmental action, local adaptation projects, and campaigns that outlast a news cycle.
Technology for good
Coding workshops, civic technology, and tools that solve a real problem for a real community.
Social entrepreneurship
Ventures that create work and uplift a community, with mentors who have built and financed them.
Preventive Diplomacy: better cooperation between China and the United States
Young Leaders take part in the Institution's Preventive Diplomacy Initiative, which works to develop better cooperation between the two countries.
Bring your whole club, council or network.
High school leadership clubs, college student governments, youth-led nonprofits and young professional networks can join as organizations: their members connect, share resources and amplify their work together.
Prepared not only to take part in the future, but to shape it.
Ready to lead, and to serve?