The 2nd International Youth Leadership Awards, jointly selected by the Young Global Leadership Foundation (YGLF) and China-US Leadership Development Foundation (CULDF), were officially announced on February 3, 2021. The award, announced in the beginning of spring in 2021, is a sign of hope and revival.
The International Youth Leadership Awards aim to discover excellent youth leaders worldwide and the undertakings they are working on, as well as innovative projects and public welfare projects that have contributed to and exercised positive impacts on the society. YGLF is a non-governmental organization which has been granted the Special Consultative Status by ECOSOC. Its mission is to guide aspiring young people from around the world to become global citizens and responsible leaders. CULDF has long been committed to promoting Sino-US relations. It also takes a special interest in discovering and cultivating 2nd-generation and 3rd-generation leaders in China and the United States and developing global leadership. It has become a new powerhouse for Sino-US cooperation.
The first International Youth Leadership Awards – 2019 Culture & Communication Leadership Award was originally scheduled to be presented at the parallel conference hosted by YGLF during the 2020 UN World Conference on Women. Impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, more than 400 summits to be held during the World Conference on Women were cancelled by the UN. The winners also failed to enter the United States, so the award was officially announced online.
In 2020, such natural and man-made disasters as the new crown epidemic, Indian locust plague, Australian wildfires, California fires, hurricanes and tsunamis have already made the year 2020 a watershed in the development of human history, which reshuffles the world pattern. At a time when global social and media networks continue to be flooded with disaster news throughout the year, we need to see “beauty” and “hope” all the more. This is why we choose this winner, the “2020 International Youth Leadership Award ” —— she is Pei GUO, a famous designer of haute couture and one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME 2016.
Pei GUO won the 2020 International Youth Leadership Award”
The 2nd INTERNATIONAL YOUTH LEADERSHIP AWARD in ART & COMMUNICATIONS Winner
—— Pei GUO, a famous designer of haute couture, one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME 2016
Pei GUO, founder of Rose Studio, is the first and only Chinese Guest Member of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode. Since January 2016, Pei GUO has presented 10 couture collections on Paris Haute Couture Week’s official calendar in the past 5 years. She is also named Asian Couturier Extraordinaire by Asian Couture Federation (ACF). For more than 20 years, she has been designing dresses for the most distinguished hosts and performers of CCTV’s Annual Spring Festival Gala. She is also the designer of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Award Ceremony dresses. In April 2016, Pei GUO was named one of 「TIME」 Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. Her creations have been exhibited in many world-class museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia, the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada and the V&A Museum in the UK. In her 30 years of design career, Pei GUO has contributed to the ‘birth’ of couture in China and has become the most authoritative artist in the field of couture.
Pei GUO won the “2020 International Youth Leadership Award” in Art & Communications
Pei GUO trained some of the earliest craftsmen in China, and has led her team to successfully restore the nearly lost 「royal embroidery」technique, bringing it into the world of couture. Her Pei GUO-Xi wedding couture collection is a celebration and innovation of traditional Chinese wedding culture, based on the inheritance of traditional techniques , so as to bring the national aesthetics, history and human emotions behind the wedding dresses to life and convey them in a more lively way.
For more than a decade, Guo Peiyi has been deeply involved in public welfare undertakings. On 14 November 2015, Guo Pei presented a couture show at a charity dinner held at the Bowers Museum in the United States and donated one of her creation to the Bowers Museum for auction. The proceeds, $40,000, go towards the Bowers Museum’s future cultural and artistic projects, contributing to the further enhancement of cultural and artistic diversity in the world. In 2017, Guo Pei actively supported the NYO-China Youth Symphony Orchestra and designed traditional costumes with unique Chinese cultural characteristics for the orchestra, which helped NYO-China performance tour at home and abroad to spread the essence of Chinese culture around the world.
ISSUED UNIT: YOUNG GLOBAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
Learn from the Past ~ Live in the Present ~ Look to the Future
The Young Global Leadership Foundation, Inc. (YGLF) guides aspiring young adult leaders from around the world to become global citizens and democratic leaders. Officially founded in 2012, YGLF guides and provides opportunities to embrace and expand their global visions and goals through their educational, professional and civic engagement choices towards a peaceful, prosperous and positive global society in the 21st Century. YGLF adheres to and advocates the spirit and essence of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
【Agenda 2030】
The 17 SDGs address the advancement of: People ~ Planet ~ Peace ~ Prosperity ~ Partnership.
The United Nations: Major Roles and Responsibilities
UN NGO ECOSOC Special Consultative Status (2018-present)
Conference on the Non-governmental Organization (CoNGO): Member
NGO Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Committee: Member (2017-present)
NGO CSW Planning Committee: Sub-committee Co-chairs
NGO Committee on Education Learning and Literacy (CELL) Vice Chair 2019 – present
United Nations Academic Impact: Member 2016-present)
Long-term YGLF Programs
YGLF Internship Program/ New York and Vienna: To provide exceptional UN experience
Young Leaders to Young Leaders Program: Peers collaborating with Peers and the SDGs
Inter-generational Advisory Council
Inter-generational Mentoring Program: Educational/Professional/Civic Engagement Guidance
YGLF SDG High School Clubs: To advocate and activate SDG initiatives
Salon Sessions: UN, the SDGs and Leadership
ISSUED UNIT: China-US Leadership Development Foundation (CULDF)
Becoming a New Powerhouse in China-US Cooperation
Developing Global Leadership
Cultivating Entrepreneurship among New Generations
Empowering Youth Leaders with Private Advisory Boards
The China-US Leadership Development Foundation (CULDF) is a not-for-profit organization registered in the United States in July 2016. CULDF’s funding comes from a variety of sources including funds and donations from institutions, corporate groups, and social organizations.
CULDF leverages its vast resources in China’s entrepreneurial, media, government sectors and its longstanding partnerships, as well as a network of professionals led by CULDF’s founding partner Dr. Hong LI, to fulfill its mission in developing Sino-US relations. CULDF dedicates itself to achieving the following goals: promoting bilateral relationship that is fair and mutually beneficial; strengthening ties in investment and cooperation; creating exchange opportunities for business leaders, young professionals and 2nd generation entrepreneurs; facilitating educational exchanges for youth; promoting Chinese brands in the international arena; deepening relations in new media and among advisory boards.
CULDF also supports individuals, organizations and institutions that serve to promote Sino-US relations with its resources, platform and professional services.
Mission
CULDF is dedicated to bridging the gap between China and United States and deepening political, economical, commercial, educational and cultural ties. Aided by CULDF’s highly effective resource allocation and benchmarking mechanism, it serves as a key facilitator of Sino-US relations by promoting valuable, meaningful and impactful programs, resource exchanges, global leadership development and executive summits. In addition, the Foundation takes special interest in helping 2nd and 3rd generation leaders reach their potentials.
Vision
To become the global standard bearer of reliability, effectiveness and efficiency for NGOs in Sino-US cooperation
Culture DNA
Global value creation, exportation of culture and ideas, creativity, internationalization
Value
Excellence, win-win partnership, empathy, inclusiveness
l. Candidate Selection Criteria
This special annual award is individually based. The candidate is required to satisfy more than THREE of the following criteria to be eligible for application and evaluation for this award:
a. Candidates have contributed outstanding achievements highly recognized within their fields of expertise.
b. Candidates and their accomplishments have created widely recognized values in society with far-reaching significance.
c. Candidates’ innovativeness promote and elevate STEAM EDUCATION: Science, Technology, Environment, Arts and Mathematics.
d. Candidates’ contributions benefit the public and broaden social welfare.
e. Candidates’ initiatives diversify and deepen their values through collaborating and connecting their contributions to other fields.
f. Candidates serve as peaceful, prosperous and positive role models to advance social development in their communities, countries and globally.
g. Age range: 18-45 years old.
II. Award Evaluation Committee
The global evaluation committee has been jointly created by YGLF and CULDF, as the executive group for candidate review and selection. The committee members are comprised of exemplary professional and ethical leaders in diversified fields of expertise. They represent both the public and private sectors from across the spectrum of society, worldwide.