Lausanne, Switzerland, February 19, 2023: Twenty-five new IOC Young Leaders, including five from Asia, have been selected to join the IOC’s four-year programme that will support them in the creation of grassroots sport-based initiatives aimed at addressing issues in their communities.
The new Young Leaders – balanced in terms of gender and diversity, and from 25 countries across five continents – were chosen from more than 360 applicants, and have demonstrated their passion for using sport as a tool for social and economic change.
The five IOC Young Leaders from Asia for 2023-2026 are: Li Daixuan (China), Pragnya Mohan (India), Ryosuke Itomi (Japan), Yazan Al Bawwab (Olympian in swimming at Tokyo 2020 - Palestine) and Alfonso Galvez (Philippines).
Over the next four years, the IOC Young Leaders will benefit from online learning, mentorship and hands-on experience that will enable them to develop the skills and knowledge needed to become effective leaders and agents of social change through sport.
Each IOC Young Leader will also receive a total of CHF 10,000 seed-funding to help them imagine, design and run their own sustainable sport-based social project.
Their sport-based projects will be intentionally designed to address at least one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), aligning with Olympic Agenda 2020+5, and contributing to the IOC’s Olympism365 strategy focused on strengthening the role of sport as an important enabler for the UN SDGs.
Source: www.ioc.org
