Description
A conversation with Swiss Youth Representative, Flora Chiper
This episode with Flora Chiper, Swiss UN Youth Representative for 2023-2025, explores the role of Youth Representatives and their current work, vision and hopes for multilateralism. Flora Chiper is multicultural and multilingual and brings a scientific perspective to the team of Swiss youth reps. She is currently a postgraduate student at the University of Basel, Department of Biomedicine Tissue Engineering Group and was previously at Harvard Medical School researching cartilage regeneration using stem cells. Flora advocates for a more data-driven decision making, long-term thinking and for more meaningful inclusion of youth in the multilateral system.
Resources:
UN Youth Delegate Programme: https://social.desa.un.org/issues/youth/un-youth-delegate-programme#:~:text=The%20roles%20of%20a%20youth,attending%20meetings%20and%20informal%20negotiations.
Conseil Suisse des Activités de Jeunesse : https://www.sajv.ch/en/projects/youth-rep
Youth: https://social.desa.un.org/issues/youth
Our Common Agenda: https://www.un.org/en/common-agenda
SDG Report. Towards a Rescue Plan for People & Planet: The-Sustainable-Development-Goals-Report-2023.pdf (un.org)
Where to listen to this episode
Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-page/id1469021154
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Content
Speaker: Flora Chiper, Swiss Youth Rep
Host: Amy Smith, UN Library & Archives
Producer: Amy Smith
Editing & social media: Mengna Chen, Amy Smith
Photo: © Jos Schmid
Recorded & produced at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva
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