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| Shasheen Jayaweera |
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Director, Youth for a Sustainable Future Pacifika, International Youth Parliament |
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Male, 24
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Sydney, New South Wales |
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 Australia |
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 Sri Lanka |
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Australian
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Australia
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English
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Shasheen Jayaweera, 22, was born in Sri Lanka and migrated to Sydney, Australia with his family at the age of 2. He is the co-founder and Director of Youth for a Sustainable Future Pacifika responsible for initiating the first Pacific Youth Summit in 2005 on the UN Millennium Goals and supporting youth and the UN MDGs in the region. Shasheen has worked on short assignments or delivered speeches in 9 countries. Shasheen also jointly directs a research team for the World Bank analyzing socio-economic issues in 6 countries, was an Australian representative on the International Youth Parliament, and was also a representative to the World Youth Congress in 2005 & 2003 working on policy documents to the UN on youth involvement in the MDGs. He was also President of AIESEC UNSW, in 2004 and has advised the Australian Government on youth entrepreneurship as part of the Prime Minister's National Youth Roundtable. Shasheen has worked with and advised several NGOs and organisations working on areas relating to the MDGs. Shasheen is currently an economics student at the University of NSW and has also held policy, finance and strategy roles in NSW Treasury, Telstra & Macquarie Bank. Shasheen is a Finalist for the 2007 Young Australian of the Year Awards (NSW) and is recognized on the cover of 2 million Sydney Whitepages for achievements in social entrepreneurship.
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| User Joined: May 17, 2003 |
| Last Login: December 31, 2007
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