The Youth Coalition is constantly organizing, leading, and facilitating different activities to connect with you to lead road safety initiatives around the world. To help us in these efforts, we appointed regional leaders to make sure that everyone in the Youth Coalition is duly represented.

The role of this group is to meaningfully engage young leaders on a regional scale, mobilizing and engaging them to impact road safety in their local communities positively. The regional leaders play a crucial role in bringing the benefits of the Global Youth Coalition to local and regional groups of changemakers; through localized activities and opportunities.

We have regional leaders for the following regions; Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America.

 

rEGIONAL LEADERS OF ASIA

 

Mariam Kukava, Georgia

Mariam has participated in many successful projects to promote road safety and sustainable urban transport through research, advocacy, educational and awareness-raising activites in Georgia. She works at the Partnership for Road Safety Foundation as a project coordinator and communication and advocacy specialist. She is responsible for designing and coordinating road safety projects and more.

Musab Al Jallad, Jordan

Musab is a Transport Consultant at Engicon, a multidisciplinary engineering consulting firm based in Amman, Jordan, He worked on several transport and road safety projects in Jordan, the UK, and the Middle East. Musab holds a master’s degree in Transport Engineering and Planning from the University of Salford (UK). His interests include sustainable mobility, parking management, urban planning, and infrastructure design. 

Shagun Sharma, India

Shagun is from Delhi, India currently working as an Analyst with Sattva as a Country Ambassador. She also works with Peace First as a Youth Panelist with Global Youth Mobilization Fund and sd an advisor with Vrikshit Foundation. She is an accredited Mental Health First Aider as well. She recently represented Restless Development and #YouthPower in Global Goals Week at Expo 2020 Dubai.

 

REGIONAL LEADERS OF AFRICA

 

Regatu Solomon, Ethiopia

Regatu is a Civil Engineer with a Master's degree in Road and Transport Engineering. She has been working on promoting sustainable transport modes and road safety for the past six years. She currently works for the Institution and Development Policy (ITDP) Africa as a transport planning consultant.

tendekayi marapara, zimbabwe

Tendekayi is Civil Engineer and is a certified Youth Star who can use the Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) Methodology developed by the International Road Assessment Programme (iRap). “Seeing people suffering and crying after they have been involved in a car crash especially for school children. It pains to see their future taken away within seconds.”

olufunke afesojaye, nigeria

Olufunke is a development expert who specializes in the development of institutions for the betterment of the world. She has worked with different organizations to implement projects, mobilize communities, create awareness, collect data, and more. She is passionate about rural development and people in hard-to-reach communities.

 

REGIONAL LEADERS OF EUROPE

 

El Khalil Cherif, Portugal

El Khalil is a researcher and assistant professor at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. He has gotten a Ph.D. in Environment, Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System and recently a Master in Sustainable Ocean Blue Economy for Environment Diplomacy from the University of Trieste. He is a member of multiple youth organizations focusing on sustainable development. 

ULVIYA ABASOVA, AZERBAIJAN

Ulviya works on addressing environmental problems based on transport impacts, especially those on climate change. She has organized different projects and events like startups, hackathons, and challenges with local and international organizations and young people. She worked with transport and safety solutions based on climate effects since 2020. A lot of the efforts she and her team work on have to do with improving sustainable mobility issues in their area.

 
 

REGIONAL LEADERS OF LATIN AMERICA

 

Nicole Perrone, Argentina

Nicole lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ever since she was born, she has always heard about road safety in her family because her 14-year-old cousin was killed in a hit-and-run crash. her aunt, Vivian Perrone, founded an NGO and has taken her under her wing ever since. At the moment, she is part of a youth group called “Tomá la Voz” (speak up) and participate in other road safety projects. 

Jacques Aristote Magloire, Haiti

Co-founder and Executive Director of TRAJEC3RS, Jacques is passionate about road safety and has been working in the road safety field for over five years. He is a philanthropist and very active and versatile as he is involved in multiple social initiatives in his motherland, Haiti.  

 
 

REGIONAL LEADERS OF NORTH AMERICA

 

JACOB SMITH, USA

Jacob is a driven car crash survivor, speaker, and activist. He has his own consultancy in road safety and mobility justice; delivering high-impact community organizing for transforming mobility access in underserved communities. He is also the Senior Director of the National Organization for Youth Safety. Since 2014, he has presented at over 190 conferences and led projects in 10 states, mobilizing youth for safe and sustainable road safety.

YASMINe AL MOGHRABI, USA

Yasmine is a Lebanese young leader named one of the top 10% of changemakers around the world who has taken action on behalf of the Global Goals. She holds a master's degree in Road Safety Management and a master's degree in Highway, Transportation, and Traffic Engineering. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering in the USA and she is passionate about road safety. Currently, she is a regional road safety leader in North America chosen by the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety.