Why should you attend One Young World?

One Young World identifies, promotes and connects the world’s most impactful young leaders to create a better world, with more responsible, more effective leadership. Here's what makes it the global forum for young leaders:

Action-oriented

The annual One Young World Summit inspires and celebrates changemakers. It's not just a 'talking shop'- the focus is on concrete action. Since 2010, One Young World Ambassadors have positively impacted 26 million people.

Diverse Community

One Young World is the most internationally-diverse and cross-sector forum for young leaders, representing 196 countries. Other than the Olympics, no other event represents as many countries.

Opportunities for all

One Young World offers scholarships to attend the annual Summit in partnership with leading companies, institutional partners, government bodies, academic institutions and grassroots organisations.

Mentorship

One Young World is set apart through the interaction it facilitates between the world’s most well renowned leaders, One Young World Counsellors, and the young leaders - yourselves.

Your voice matters

One Young World is the only global forum that is designed by young leaders for young leaders, ensuring that young people have the opportunity to devise solutions to the topics they care about most.

Counsellors

One Young World Counsellors are world renowned leaders who participate in the Summit as speakers. Counsellors who participate in a Plenary Session have one-on-one meetings with Delegate Speakers. In the past, Counsellors have included Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Meghan Markle, Professor Muhammad Yunus and Mary Robinson.

Academic Institutions

One Young World partners with some of the world's leading educational institutions who send high potential students to One Young World Summits. Throughout the year, One Young World partners with these institutions to organise caucuses and provide expert insight on key activities. One Young World also promotes scholarships and programmes from these institutions to members of our community who wouldn't otherwise have the chance to apply.

Small Business & Startups

One Young World serves as a springboard for early stage businesses to launch into their next phase by equipping entrepreneurs with a network that enables them to grow, as well as offering a number of scholarships and programmes that will provide start ups with the tools necessary to grow.

Government

One Young World partners with a number of governmental bodies to ensure that young people are involved in the issues that impact their country and communities most. These partnerships include the European Commission, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, First Lady of Colombia, and the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales.

Business

One Young World boasts the largest corporate footprint of any organisation in the third sector. Leading companies from every sector make One Young World an integral part of their global talent development, retention and attraction. Companies who have sent Delegates include Audi, BMW, Chanel, Citigroup, Coca-Cola, Credit Suisse, Deloitte, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Novartis, PepsiCo, RB and Siemens, to name a few.

Non-Governmental Organisations

One Young World partners with NGOs globally to nominate individuals to attend the annual One Young World Summit and collaborate post-Summit to cross promote work. One Young World engages with them in our community work throughout the year to collaborate on campaigns to build visibility for our community as well as act as a bridge between the third sector and corporate world.