Golam Kibrea, Global Fellow at Center for Inclusive Governance (CIG)

Summary

Mr. Golam is a young development advocate, frequent community organizer and global level youth policy expert from Asia Pacific region. Academically he is a business graduate, did finish is graduation and post-graduation majoring marketing from the university of Dhaka. As a young development professional, Mr. Golam has been playing several leadership role for more than dozens of global youth platforms including International Youth council (IYC), UNEP-TUNZA Asia Pacific Youth Network, UN Major Groups of Children & Youths (UNCSD MGCY), UNESCO Youth Experts Network, South Asian Youth Environment Network (SAYEN), UNCSD Major Groups for Children and Youths, Global Youth Coalition Against Cancer (GYCC), Our Future World (OFW), European Access Network (EAN), International Network for Environment (INE), Challenge Future (C:F), Bangladesh Youth Environmental initiative (BYEI), Asia Pacific Youth Network (APYN), UNFPA National Youth Forum, Ministry of Environment- Bangladesh and so on. He has also been worked for several global businesses and corporates including Samsung Electronics Inc. and LG Electronics Inc. under several key organizational roles. Furthermore, Mr. Golam had been served several local, regional and global youth level signature development projects related with the Post-2015 framework and SDG Processes including: Climate Change Effects on Human Health, Campaign for Green Champion (CGC), South Asian Youth Environment Meet (SAYEM), UNEP National Youth Forum, UNEP Regional Forum, Rio+20 Global Youth Music Contest, Earth Champion Project (ECP), World Congress on Post Secondary Education, Green Channel-Educating Youths etc. Indeed, Mr. Golam is one of the very prominent youth experts among a numbers of active Asia Pacific youths who have been working very closely for UN Post-2015 framework alongside help unifying local youth voices reflect in the global agenda development processes. Since 2006, he has been participated at many international conferences and policy dialogues and thereby received numbers of global awards and certifications for his multi-facet engagement with the global youth-led development initiatives. Very recently, Mr. Golam has been nominated for the Vice-Chairman position at Commonwealth Youth Council (CYC) Election for 2015 ~ 2017 tenure by the Commonwealth Youth Program (CYP) – a common global youth platform of 53 Commonwealth member countries. At this very time, Mr. Golam is held with a leadership role as Regional President at Kairos Society- a global community startup platform based in the United States; the Vice-President at upcoming Global Youth Entrepreneurs Summit (GYES) 2015; Global Advisor at Global Youth Coalition Against Cancer (GYCC) and while also one of the Ex-Global Youth Advisory Board members at International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

Contact info

Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Industry Experience

Education: Masters

Seniority: Board director, CEO, COO, CFO, President, Provost

Years of experience: 5 to 10 years

Work Experience

Parliamentarian

Asia Pacific Youth Parliament for Water (APYPW)

1) Engage young innovators and lead national level projects on WASH 2) Design campaigns and do advocacy for water rights and issues 3) Facilitate events, conference on water resources and trans-boundary contexts.

Global Youth Advisor

International Telecommunication Union

1. Encourage and drive Crowdsourcing activity to collect ideas and innovations.
2. Mobilize hubs to participate in the Summit (in local languages) online and offline
3. Curate and note down key points to report and incorporate in the Summit outcomes

Regional President

Kairos Society

1. Engage students, startup founders, Investors and Accelerators to promote entrepreneurship
2. Lead KS National leadership board and provide strategic directions to individual teams
3. Devise national policy and localized strategies to expand KS scopes

Global Fellow

Center for Inclusive Governance (CIG)

1. Connecting students, entrepreneurs and youths and other community groups 2. Campaign on transparency, openness (Open Government) and accountability 3. Advise CIG building coordination with global Youth community and provide strategic directions

Co-Founder

Youth Alliance International (YAI)

1. Define national level work scopes for youths and other key stakeholder groups. 2. Engage youths in community-drive small-scale projects and aware of their issues and rights. 3. Partnership with local NGOs, UN Missions, and Foreign Embassies for local level projects.

Industry Expertise

Charity
Non Profit
Startups
Conference Organization
Communication & Media
Non Government Organisation
Educational Non Profit
Public Health
Purification
Policy
Technology
IT
Environment
Human Rights
Infrastructure
Governance & Planning
International policy
Green Technology
Renewable Energy
Recycling
Water
Waste Management
Corporate Sustainability
Green Building
Hardware
Software & Services
Printing & Printing Services
Web Development
Internet
Operations Management
Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
Corporate Relations
Resource Mobilisation
Natural Resources Conservation
Disaster Management
Women Empowerment
Child Education
Social Awareness
Sustainable Communities
Climate
Participatory Irrigation Management
Sustainable Investments
Development Communications
Advocacy on disability rights
Public Awareness
Advocacy & Outreach
Social Impact
Partnership and Capacity Strengthening
International Water Non Profit