Xin chao! Greetings from Vietnam! Than Tran Bao Ngoc is a junior majoring in International Relations and Communication at the Academy of Journalism and Communication. She was chosen as one of 250 young leaders worldwide to join the US Government fully funded GlobalUGRAD exchange program. She is now an intern in the US Embassy in Vietnam.

She has been MUN-ing for over 2 years and got invited to represent Vietnam and Asia-Pacific youth's voice in the United Nations ECOSOC Youth Forum held in UN Headquarters in 2023. As an active ASEAN youth, she took part in ASEAN Foundation ASEAN Model Meeting (AFMAM) 2022, ASEAN-China Young Leaders Program 2023, and ASEAN-Japan Students Conference 2023 (JENESYS). She is also a certified ASEAN Foundation ASEAN Model Meeting Trainer.

By being the Board of Director at this remarkable event, she hopes to work with amazing young leaders from across the globe on solving heated issues in a diplomatic manner. She believes that Asia World MUN is an amazing platform for the voice of the youth to be heard and for the long-lasting friendship to be made.

Manuel Campos’ career is mainly focused on the field of diplomacy and international relations. This year he graduated from “Global Studies” at the Pompeu Fabra University and now he is studying a master in International Governance and Diplomacy at SciencesPo Paris. During the second half of 2022, Manuel had the opportunity to study a semester at Yale-NUS Singapore. During the last three years he has been able to combine his academic training with solid professional experience through different professional practices in various countries. Between 2021 and 2022, he worked for nine months at the Uruguayan Consulate in Barcelona. During the spring of 2023 he moved to Estonia to work at Hispaania Maja, a Spanish company in Estonia in charge of promoting the Spain Brand in the small Baltic country. During last summer, he was selected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation to do an internship at the Spanish Embassy in Amman, Jordan. There, he had the opportunity to work in the political section of the representation, participating in high-level meetings with diplomats from around the world and closely monitoring the human rights situation and stability in the region. Manuel is also a freelance journalist currently working for The Political Room. For the last two years, he has worked as a “correspondent” writing articles from various countries such as Brunei, Gambia and Laos and have entered high-risk areas such as Western Sahara, Ukraine (during the war), the Fergana Valley (Uzbekistan), northern Kosovo and refugee camps in Lebanon. His reports and articles “on the ground” have been accompanied by short audiovisual reports about his experience and the topics discussed in the articles, including interviews with local people involved and other actors involved in the issues I address. The success of these articles has allowed me to participate in different interviews with renowned figures in Spain such as Yago Rodríguez, the creator of one of the most important analyses in the world of defense and international affairs in Spain. Manuel has actively participated in MUNs since 2020, taking him to different places around the world such as Ljubljana, Sharm el Sheikh and Maastricht, Paris and Barcelona both as a delegate and as a chair, where he has been able to put into play his abilities in numerous security affairs in committees such as NATO, the European Union, WTO and the Security Council

Hailing from Malaysia - we have Sofia to chair for UNESCO council. Sofia currently working in media agency for almost 6 years. She has a bachelor degree in Media Studies from University of Malaya and was active MUN-er since high school. Throughout her journey in MUN, she has won several awards as delegates and has been chairing numerous conferences either locally & internationally. Previously, she was the advisor for Johor Model United Nation for two years where the objective is to provide an effective and constructive platform for young leaders to engage in fruitful exchanges of ideas and opinions with her team known as Johor Student Leaders Council (JSLCA).

Huspidiatul Anwar Gemadiyah or Huspi is an International Relations graduate from Brawijaya University, Indonesia, minoring in International Security and Peace. Currently he is pursuing his passion by becoming one of the researcher at a local think-tank in Indonesia. He has covered a wide-range of research for whether for his model meetings purposes or work on the topic of human security, including human rights issues in both Africa and the MENA region, renewable energy policy, refugee-related issues, social protection, and currently he is working on a research product related to ASEAN Standards and Certification for Experts in Disaster Management