Carlo Ángeles
Carlo André Ángeles Manturano (born 16 February 1993) is a Peruvian youth advocate and executive director of Somos el Presente, a youth-led organization that empowers young people in Latin America to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. He advocated for a youth policy reform with political parties that participated in Peru´s 2016 general elections. On october 7 - 2017, he got elected as member of the Metropolitan City Council at the Government of Lima for the 2019-2022 term. Biography. Carlo Ángeles was born in Lima, Peru. He was trained as a Psychologist at San Ignacio  de Loyola University. While at University, he focused on researching the relation between welfare, turnover rate and productivity. He has participated in international conferences at Cologne University - World Business Dialogue and at Harvard University - The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations. He was named by El Comercio newspaper as an outstanding young psychologist. Professional career. At age 18, he founded a startup, TodosGanan.net which offered online marketing services. That same year, he founded the Association of University Students for Public Service which would eventually become Somos el Presente. He has previously served as Chief for Lima and Callao of  the National Youth Employment Program at the Ministry of Education and as National Director for Youth Organization, Promotion and Management at the Ministry of Education. Under his tenure as Director for Youth Organization, Promotion and Management he developed the participation and accountability process for Youth to actively engage in the implementation of the Sustainaible Development Goals. Carlo Ángeles started a movement in 2013 to include young people in peacebuilding and train them to be future agents of dialogue and peace. He was invited by HOPE Foundation and Netherlands' Ministry of Foreign Affairs to join a working group of 70 young  leaders at the International Court of Justice alongside mentors such as the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize and The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, to draft a document that was presented in 2015 at United Nations as the global youth vision long term vision of the future. Work promoting United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Angeles was appointed Global Youth Advocate for United Nations My World 2015 Campaign. In this role, he engaged youth in Peru, Colombia and Argentina with United Nations Post 2015 Agenda - Sustainable Development Goals and their governments. He has engaged youth in Argentina by co–organizing  an event on the Post 2015 Agenda at the National Parliament of the Republic of Argentina engaging youth and congressmen. In Colombia, he delivered My World 2015 report to the Presidential Youth Program, Colombia Joven. In Peru, he co-hosted a youth summit on the Post 2015 Agenda engaging 1000 youth delegates, Minister of State, José Gallardo Ku and other policy makers. He also engaged youth globally through My World 2015 Campaign at international youth-led events such as COY10 in Peru, International Association of Political Science Students World Congress in London, among others. His Organization was the only Peruvian  organization to be granted special accreditation by United Nations to attend United Nations Summit for the Adoption of the Post - 2015 Development Agenda, one of the most important summits in United Nations history. He has been invited as a speaker in several international events covering topics such as sustainable development, gender equality, youth, disability and participation mechanisms. International Working Groups. He was member of Selection Committee for Civil Society Speakers in UN Summit for the adoption of the Post-2015 Development Agenda, advocating for youth representation from the civil society representative elected. One of the first tasks assigned to the Selection  Committee was the selection of the Civil Society Representative that addressed the UN General Assembly Plenary. Salil Shetty was elected to deliver a speech representing civil society worldwide after Pope Francis and Nobel Peace Prize, Malala. On September 25 Salil Shetty delivered a speech to heads of state at United Nations General Assembly where he addressed the role of young people in combating corruption, inequality, social injustice and climate change. Carlo Angeles is member of several high-level international working groups in which he advocates for youth engagement as partners for sustainable development. He was invited to join Second Meeting  of the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals in Bangkok, Thailand, which will address the design process of the indicators that will be used to track the success of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. He was member of Policy & Strategy Group of World We Want 2015, United Nations and civil society data curation and visualization platform for Post 2015 agenda. He has been invited as a speaker and has advocated for youth engagement in sustainable development at several international high-level events like COY10, Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank  Group, United Nations 70th General Assembly High-Level Panels, World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference, Concordia Summit, Open Government Partnership Global Summit. Youth Policy Reform. Carlo Ángeles is advocating for a youth policy reform with political parties that will participate in 2016 general elections. He presented several youth participation mechanisms policies. Political parties will make a public commitment to include concrete actions for youth in their government plans.