Preparing leaders focused on actual impact.
Young United World Leaders is the youth institution of United World Leaders, built for the next generation of impact: whether you are in high school, at university, starting your career or already leading an organization.
To prepare the next generation of world leaders, committed to elevating the well-being of humanity, and to give them a serious place to practise leadership before they hold office.
The decisions of this century will be lived longest by those who are young today. Yet the institutions where those decisions are prepared were built for people who have already arrived. Young United World Leaders exists to close that distance.
It offers three things no single course or conference can: counsel from people who have carried the responsibility of governing a nation; responsibility of its own, through projects members initiate and lead; and a recorded voice, through the Young World Parliament, whose Resolutions are transmitted to United World Leaders and its Councils.
Membership asks something in return: action rather than rhetoric, integrity in argument, and service to people beyond one's own country. These are the values of the Charter of United World Leaders, and they bind its youth institution too.
What membership offers
Learn from those who led
Webinars, fireside conversations and summit sessions with former Presidents and Prime Ministers, ambassadors, and leaders of family offices and multinational organizations.
Lead your own projects
Gain responsibility and experience, invite other young people to join your mission, and contribute to a global one.
Meet decision-makers
Take part in United World Leaders events and summits around the world, engaging with decision-makers in person.
The Young World Parliament
Serve as a Delegate: table Motions, sit on a Standing Committee and vote in Divisions that are published in full.
Young World Leader Awards
Competitions that recognise meaningful impact, with international recognition and visibility during the Summits.
A network across continents
Members in every region, organised into Regional Benches that meet across borders rather than along party lines.
Principles
Young UWL inherits the principles of the United World Leaders Charter.
- Nonpartisan: no positions on candidates or parties; Benches, not factions.
- Action over rhetoric: projects, Resolutions and results, each on the record.
- Integrity and transparency: public votes, published rules, an append-only Register.
- Global inclusivity: one seat per person, every region, every background.
- Service: the well-being of humanity, not the advancement of the member.