Meet the Team & Youth Ambassadors

Marie-Claire Graf

Youth spokesperson & Youth Ambassador

Country: Switzerland

Marie-Claire Graf is a climate diplomacy and policy consultant, advocate and intersectional activist, Co-Founder of Youth Negotiators Academy, former Focal Point of the Youth Constituency at United Nations Climate Change, and former Vice-Chair on Youth at United Nations Food Systems Summit. She was the youngest negotiator of Switzerland to the UN climate negotiations and is currently training young diplomats from all over the world for multilateral processes. She has been studying at ETH and the University of Zurich (Political and Environmental Sciences). It’s her aspiration to inspire and empower youth to take meaningful, impactful and positive actions to create momentum for change. She initiated and is leading several associations and movements around climate action, sustainable development, youth and women empowerment, food systems transformation and education such as Sustainability Week International and Real Food Systems. She is currently fully committed to the Youth Negotiators Academy (YNA) and the two programmes Climate Youth Negotiator Programme (CYNP) and Land Youth Negotiator Programme (LYNP).