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Born 1994, Jasmin Burgermeister is one of two official German Youth Delegates on Sustainable Development since 2015. In this function, she not only attended HLPF 2015 but also the UN Summit for the adoption of the 2030 Agenda last September.
Together with her colleague, she travels around Germany in order to meet a great diversity of young Germans and teach and talk with them about Development. In this way, Jasmin acts as a mouthpiece of the German Youth and thus, she also regularly meets political decisions-makers in Germany.
Parts of her high school time she spent in New Zealand. After fnishing high school she has worked for the Goethe-Institute (German cultural institute) in France for one year. Jasmin studies International Relations and Global History at the University of Erfurt/Germany and is scholar of the Foundation of the German Businesses. She is young European federalist since her mid-school time and strives for more European integration and more European collaboration not only in external affairs but also concerning Social and Sustainable Development.
See also her article on our Youth Flash Newsletter, February 2016: Our Future, Our Present: Young People at the Heart of the 2030 Agenda! – Lessons from the ECOSOC Youth Forum 2016
Watch the full interview below: