Georgia Shakeshaft

International youth advocate

Georgia is an international youth advocate from regional NSW with a deep passion for finding solutions to climate change and gender inequality. She was the first Australian appointed as a Girl Up Teen Advisor to the United Nations Foundation in 2019, alongside a global cohort of teen girls. In 2023, she was a Plan International Australia Youth Activist and co-authored the report ‘For Our Futures’ on the impact of climate change on young people across the Asia-Pacific. She presented this report as one of Plan International Australia’s youth delegates at COP28 in Dubai, advocating for the recognition of education as a form of non-economic Loss and Damage. She now sits on Plan International Australia’s Impact and Influence Board Committee, bringing a youth perspective to Plan’s international programming and governance. After working with young people in the education sector, Georgia is passionate about how education can solve the greatest issues of our time, including the climate crisis. She is a Global Youth Ambassador with Their World, working internationally to improve education. She studies a double degree in International Relations and Law at the University of Sydney.”