Johanna Schwarz

G20 Global Young Changemaker

Johanna Schwarz (27) is a UN youth representative, climate activist, moderator, speaker and strong advocate for youth participation in international politics. Having served in the Youth Steering Committee of the UN Department of Global Communications and leading an ECOSOC-associated youth-NGO, she knows the diplomatic and civil society scene at the United Nations quite well and regularly joins international conferences as speaker and youth participant, including the COP21 in Paris, UN Civil Society Conferences or the Climate Summits in New York in 2019. Johanna is deeply passionate about combating climate change through just transitions and completed her Master's in Climate Change from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2017. She now works in consulting and focuses on facilitating energy and mobility transitions through cleantech with a focus on hydrogen and machine learning. Johanna has been named a G20 Young Global Changer in 2018 and serves in the European Commission’s Think Tank on Youth Participation.