Kehkashan

Basu

Winner of the International Children’s Peace Prize, 20-year-old Kehkashan Basu is an iconic youth leader, global influencer, environmentalist, champion of women and children’s rights, TEDx speaker, Climate Reality Mentor, author, musician, peace and sustainability campaigner. She is a Forbes30under 30 for Education and the first-ever Voices Youth Gorbachev-Schultz Legacy Award recipient for her work on peace and nuclear disarmament. Kehkashan is a United Nations Human Rights Champion, a National Geographic Young Explorer, a UN Habitat Young City Champion and the youngest ever Global Coordinator for the UN Environment Program’s Major Group for Children & Youth and one of Canada's Top25 Women of Influence. Kehkashan is the Founder President of global social innovation enterprise Green Hope Foundation, that works at a grassroots level in 25 countries, empowering all sections of civil society, especially those from vulnerable communities, in the sustainable development process and she has spoken at over 200 United Nations and other global fora across 25 countries. She is a member of the World Humanitarian Forum Youth Council, a Board of Trustees member at the Parliament of the World's Religions and UN Women’s Action Coalition on Feminist Action for Climate Justice and has tirelessly worked to amplify the voices of young people, especially women and girls, in creating a peaceful, equitable and sustainable world where no one is left behind.