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Gilbert F. Houngbo, Director-General of ILO, delivered a video speech at the opening ceremony of the 2025 World Youth Development Forum

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Deng Yawen

Chinese BMX (Bicycle Motocross) rider, China’s first Olympic champion in freestyle BMX

Yao Ming

Vice President of the All-China Youth Federation, Former President of the Chinese Basketball Association, Founder of YAO Foundation

Kenneth Fok Kai-kong

Vice President of the All-China Youth Federation, Member of the Legisltive Council of the Hong Kong Functional Constituency

Liang Xiaosheng

Renowned Contemporary Chinese Writer, Author of “A Lifelong Journey”, Winner of the 10th Mao Dun Literature Awards

Wang Yaping

Heroic Astronaut, Vice President of the All-China Youth Federation, China’s First Female Astronaut to Conduct Extravehicular Activites and First Space Teacher

Zhong Nanshan

Winner of the “Medal of the Republic”, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Respiratory Specialist

Cristiane Britto

Minister of Women, Family, and Human Rights of Brazil

Maite Nkoana-Mashabane

Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth, and Persons with Disabilities of South Africa

Ashraf Sobhy

Minister of Youth and Sports of Egypt

Alina Anna Prochasek

Head of National Youth Agency, Poland

A Dong

Chairman of Inter-Ministries Meeting for Implementation of the Medium and Long-Term Youth Development Plan, First Secretary of the Secretariat of Central Committee of Communist Youth League of China

Vladimir Imomovich Norov

Chairman of the Central Asian Association of Artificial Intelligence, Former Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and Former Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan

Gabriela Ramos

Assistant Director-General for the Social and Human Sciences of UNESCO

Siddharth Chatterjee

UN Resident Coordinator in China

Jayathma Wickramanayake

UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth

Klaus Schwab

Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum

Felipe Paullier

ASG Youth Affairs

Xu Haoliang

UN Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme

Amina J. Mohammed

Deputy Secretary-General

António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres

Secretary-General of the United Nations

Klaus Schwab

Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum

Jayathma Wickramanayake

UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth

Siddharth Chatterjee

UN Resident Coordinator in China

Changhee Lee

Director of ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia

Susana Puerto

Senior Youth Employment Specialist of ILO

Mette Grangaard Lund

Green Jobs Specialist, International Labour Organization

Niall O'Higgins

Senior Economist in the ILO's Employment Analysis Unit and Professor of Economics at the University of Salerno

Gabriela Ramos

Assistant Director-General for the Social and Human Sciences of UNESCO

Shahbaz Khan

Director of the UNESCO Beijing Office and Representative to China, DPRK, Japan, Mongolia, ROK

Robert Opp

Chief Digital Officer, UNDP

Beate Trankmann

Resident Representative of UNDP China

Justine Coulson

UNFPA Representative to China and Country Director for UNFPA in Mongolia

Andrea Meza Murillo

Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

David Morris

Vice-Chair of the United Nations Sustainable Business Network for Asia Pacific

Dr. Roman Chukov

Vice-Chair， Board of the UN Major Group on Children and Youth (MGCY)

Rebecca Ivey

Chief Representative Officer, China Office, World Economic Forum Beijing

Razan Al Mubarak

President of International Union for Conservation of Nature（IUCN）

Ediola Pashollari

Secretary-General of World Assembly of Youth

Zhang Mingzhou

President of International Board on Books for Young People

Andreas Schleicher

Director for Education and Skills, OECD

Mats Granryd

Director General of GSMA

Carlos Sentis

Founder and CEO of the World Innovation Alliance

Erik Berglof

Chief Economist of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Francis Chuks Njoaguani

Director of ECOWAS Youth & Sports Development Center (EYSDC)

George N. Tzogopoulos

Director of the EU-China Programmes at the European Institute of Nice

Macarena Sanchez Jeanney

The National Youth Institute of Republic of Argentina

Cristiane Britto

Minister of Women, Family, and Human Rights of Brazil

Alexander Lukyanov

First Secretary of Belarusian Republican Youth Union

Luiz Felipe Custódio Francisção

National Secretary for Youth, the Ministry of Women, Family, and Human Rights of Brazil

Huai jinpeng

Minister for Education, China

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World Assembly of Youth

International Organization

Asian Youth Council

ECOWAS Youth Council

Great SILK WAY - International Youth Union

ANC Youth League

Youth wing Jastar Rukhy of Amanat Party

Belarusian Republican Youth Union

JAPAN SEINENDAN COUNCIL

Japan

La Jeunesse Socialiste

Morocco

Juventud del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela

Venezuela

La Unión de Jóvenes Comunistas

Cuba

Lao People's Revolutionary Youth Union

Laos

National Youth Commission of the Philippines

National Youth Council Singapore

Singapore

Organismo Internacional de Juventud para Iberoamérica

Russian Union of Youth

Social Democratic Youth of Mongolia

Mongolia

The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union

The National Youth Committee of Minjoo Party of Korea

South Korea

Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia

Youth Congress of Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

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