During this uncertain time, our customers and partners’ health is our priority. In many countries, we have temporarily paused programme activity in response to government and health authority guidance.

As a result, we won’t be running the Future Leaders Connect programme this year.

Don’t worry, you can still get involved with Future Leaders Connect by signing up to our digital community to access free policy and leadership resources. We will also be running our highly-popular online course, Ideas for a Better World: Leading Change through Policymaking within the next few months. Check the Future Leaders Connect website or sign up for the latest updates. 

You can find out more about the British Council’s response to Covid-19, here.

Future Leaders Connect offers its members the opportunity to be part of a long-term global network of emerging policy leaders. 

As a member you will; 

  • travel to the UK for ten days of advanced policy and leadership development at the Moller Institute, Churchill College, University of Cambridge
  • discuss today’s biggest global challenges in the UK Houses of Parliament
  • meet inspirational leaders
  • visit world renowned institutions

Following your time in the UK you will have worldwide connections, a policy action plan for change and the skills, knowledge and networks needed to be an influential leader in your country and beyond.  

To take part you must be aged 18-35, be based in one of our participating countries and be able to demonstrate your policy knowledge and senior leadership potential. Participating countries include Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Tunisia and the UK.  Everyone who applies has the opportunity to join our Future Leaders Connect Community, giving you access to a range of free online policy and leadership professional development resources designed to build your expertise, including our free online course.

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2019 winners

AMAL GOLLI

Amal is an electronics,electrotechnics and automatism student, keen to become a future embedded system engineer.
Amal’s main goal as electronics’ student and as an innovative is to work on automated-solutions for today’s global challenges and ensure the sustainability of the given solutions.
She is member of the international organization IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), as part of the executive board in the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis Student branch. Amal brings to her position a well-established background in public speaking. Taking on theatre classes for 3 years nourished her ability to express herself easily, which explains her success in pitching during several entrepreneurship competitions as well as being invited to give talks about her field of knowledge.
Her experience with a debating club nourished her sense of criticism and complex thinking, as this was the start of her journey with global challenges and problems, as well political overviews and policy making, it also made her inclusive and has forged her participative and collaborative mindset, and led her to volunteer in a great variety of international events, the most recent one being Rightscon 2019, as well as national events which consisted majorly of environmental campaigns.
She turned out to become an interdisciplinary individual as she could see the relevance and interconnectedness of different disciplines (such as technology, physical sciences, social sciences and so on) and gather it all up to create a public value.

SARRA BATTIKH

Sarra is an environment specialist who carries a passion for urban planning. Currently, she works as a municipal service delivery specialist at The Tunisia Accountability, Decentralization, and Effective Municipalities (TADAEEM or “Consolidation”) project. The project is financed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Deloitte. She brings her technical expertise to support municipalities enhance their public service programs towards better urban development strategies and she undertakes her mission with a special focus on the solid waste management service.
As a former United Nations volunteer, Sarra was assigned by the United Nations Development Program to "Our City Project: Strengthening and disseminating strategic urban planning initiatives in Tunisia, focused particularly on the cities of the interior part” and contributed shaping an effective and a participatory city development strategy for the town of Medenine, Tunisia.
She holds a degree in chemical engineering from INSAT (National Institute of Applied Science and Technology in Tunis) and has developed an extensive network of active change makers in the fields of environment, urban sustainable development and local governance, especially from the MENA region. She is committed towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (the SDGs) at a local level in the aim of making cities resilient and sustainable. She was also a facilitator during SDG camp workshops lead by the united nations systems in Tunisia in November 2017.

2018 winners

Dhikra Elhidri

Dhikra is responsible for a project with the Center for Applied Policies Research at the University of Munich in the framework of the program “Leading Change across the  Mediterranean,  Policy Advice and Strategy  Development”. Dhikra is an engineer in agronomic sciences. She worked with FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), the Tunisian Union of Agriculture and Fishery and ICARDA (International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas) about women and youth empowerment in rural areas through Gender Sensitive Value Chain, improving Pastoral Policies, SGDs and inclusive approach. She worked with COSPE (Development Cooperation in Emerging Countries) about Social and Solidarity Economy/ Entrepreneurship. Dhikra worked at Grameen-Foundation in Seattle-USA with CSF-South in Southern Mediterranean and AID-MENA as a professional fellow. She is a trainer in Civic Education with Goethe Institut also a trainer in Advocacy and Policy Influencing with INTRAC. Dhikra wrote a policy paper about the economic violence against women farmer and she submitted it to the women committee in the parliament. After advocacy campaigns, appropriate transport to avoid mortal accidents is provided for them in several regions as a pilot initiative. She believes that progress desired by communities should be achieved through public policies as the most powerful approach.

Haythem Dellai

Haythem is the co-founder and general coordinator of Elite Center for civic engagement and local governance. He has been working as a trainer in conflict management and communication with local and international NGOs like Mercy Corps and GIZ since 2015. Academically, after finishing my undergraduate training in Anglophone history, politics, and literature, he studied political leadership, conflict resolution and human rights in Benedictine University in Chicago as part of the MEPI Student Leaders Program. An achievement that he is still part of is carrying on the mission of promoting the culture of civic engagement. He has also dedicated his efforts to help to provide dozens of capacity building training for free to more than 500 youth from different areas from Tunisia and in Elite Centre for civic engagement starting from 2017. His vision for global change is that only a well informed and a civically engaged generation of youth can restore and enhance social security in times crisis.

2017 winners

Alaeddine Oueslati 

Alaeddine is a Women Deliver Young Leader and a UN Empower Women Global Champion, working on advancing women’s rights, well-being, and economic empowerment in the MENA. He has worked for the Hickey Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue, Caux Initiatives of Change and UNICEF. He is the founder of several projects, such as the NASH Initiative and Voices of Youth Ukraine. He studied business administration with a major in global affairs at Tunis Business School and was named winner of the 120 Under 40 Award, led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He was also appointed Youth Media Professional by the African Union, where he worked in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as part of a think tank devoted to promoting the 2017 African Union youth campaign to harness the demographic dividend through investment in African youth, particularly women in rural areas. His global vision for change was one where everyone plays a role in climate action and alleviating poverty and hunger, and more importantly, establishing an effective global partnership that can help end all humanitarian crises.

Jihene Ferchichi

Jihene received an LL.M. degree in International Studies from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law (USA), and a Masters degree in Business Law from the Faculty of Judicial Sciences (Tunisia). Jihene is a legal consultant in Tunisia and a deputy regional director of the International Chamber of Commerce of Paris. In 2012, Jihene interned with the Tunisian Presidential Cabinet and worked on drafting and reviewing laws with the legal advisor to the President of Tunisia. She coordinated the work of the Commission on the Presidential Grace in 2013. Jihene is active with civil associations working with children and on children’s rights. Her vision of an efficient global policy is focused on the protection of the rights of the child and combating trafficking in children, through realistic solutions to the deficiency of the Rule of Law in this filed. Jihene’s vision resumes in going back to the basics of the legislative process and rebuild a stronger link between lawmaking and the people in order to guarantee systematic, willful and genuine adherence. Raising awareness about realities, freedom and evolution of access to information and transparency throughout the legislating process are the three head chapters of such global vision.

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