The Earth Prize
Youth Board
The Earth Prize Youth Board is a group of carefully selected students between the ages of 13 and 19. The Board serves as an advisory body for The Earth Prize, so as to ensure that the competition remains fully aligned with its Participants' interests.
2024 Youth Board Members
Zlata Shama
2024 Youth Board member
Zlata Shama is a 14-year-old student at the International School of Geneva. She has always loved being involved in global issues in particular sustainability, equity and social interaction, she has shown that throughout multiple school initiatives such as student council and 9innovate project. Since June 2022, she is a Villars Institute Fellow an solution-oriented nonprofit foundation to accelerate the transition to net zero economy. Zlata is following the Villars Institute & Minerva Project: Systems Leadership Program. During the summer 2023, she was nominated to be a Youth Jury at the FIFAD film festival 2023. Outside, she is also a dancer at national level.
2023 Youth Board Members
Carlota Ferro
2023 Youth Board member
Carlota is a 17-year-old student at Collège du Léman (CDL) International School, Switzerland who is originally from Lisbon but currently resides in Geneva. She has always been passionate about international issues, specifically inequality, discrimination and sustainability. She is currently the president of a student group at CDL which fundraises for WATU, a charity with various education projects in Tanzania. She coordinates the group’s efforts and organizes multiple fundraisers for WATU each year. She is also the president of the CDL Environmental Association, through which she leads students in creating projects that attempt to make her school more sustainable. In June of 2022, she attended the Villars Symposium, where she began working with other students, teachers, and Norwegian food activist Gunhild Stordalen to create an initiative to push for increased use of planetary health diets in schools. She plans to move to London next year to continue her studies in politics, international relations, and social sciences at university.
2022 Youth Board Members
Matteo Markel
2022 Youth Board member
Matteo Markel is a 16 year old student at the International School of Zug and Luzern in Switzerland. From a young age, he was interested in science and solving environmental issues using technology. He is passionate about carbon reduction and the sustainable systems shaping the future. Matteo worked on the Aquaponics System at ISZL, a project where waste from a fish tank is recirculated to plants which grow and clean the water for the fish. In 2020, he won a grant from the IB and the change-maker association Ashoka. Currently, he is committed to helping ISZL achieve their goal of carbon neutrality by 2027. Looking ahead, Matteo plans to take science courses about ways to balance economic growth with positive social and environmental goals.
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