Life changing experience

I attended the Model G20 Youth Leadership Summit as a Lead Ambassador. I previously participated as a student in the 2018 Boston Model G20 Summit and the 2018 Argentina Task Force. As a Lead Ambassador, I led student workshops, helped students negotiate multilateral agreements, and delivered the closing speech of the conference. While it was a great experience for myself, I noticed that many other students were building the same connections that I built in Boston: lasting friendships that they would maintain even on opposite sides of the globe. The genuine friendships that can be made in a matter of days at a Model G20 Summit continue to amaze me.

Unlike most travel/study abroad programs, Model G20 Summits have a focus. They bring hundreds of international students together to simulate a G20 conference, assigning every student a country and ministerial role that they adopt for 3 or more days. Over these days, they negotiate deals with each other, often in highly informal settings that blend conversations about their daily lives back home with high-stakes negotiations that require extensive research into their assigned countries' economic and social conditions.

As a Lead Ambassador, I was able to see students forming these bonds, and I was happy to see that the quality of the conference had not changed since I previously participated in it. Personally, I grew close with the other Lead Ambassadors and had a great time seeing what it's like to teach/run a classroom. The experiences provided by Knovva, be it as a student-delegate or a Lead Ambassador, are honestly life-changing and build people both personally and professionally.