Willice Onyango is the Executive Director of The Youth Café, a multi-award-winning youth organization with its regional headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. At The Youth Café, he is currently managing an annual portfolio of +1 million USD grant projects and leading a dynamic team of 53. He has a 7-year track record of trailblazing youth-led development having previously served as a global youth representative to the UN High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on Post 2015 that was co-chaired by British Prime minister, Liberian and Indonesian presidents and as a member of International Youth council. Consequently, he has been invited to speak at numerous international forums spanning 28 countries, including the 68th UN General Assembly; World Bank Youth Forum, AU Heads of States Summit among others on youth, development, and democracy. He is an alumnus of the prestigious One Young World, International Young Leaders Assembly, and Kettering Foundation Deliberative Democracy Exchange, and completed Civic Leadership Institute at Kansas State University, U.S.A as a Mandela Washington Fellow. Willice sits on a number of international boards like Global Participatory Budgeting Hub.

He is the author of Kenya Youth Manifesto, a non-partisan publication that unified the aspirations of the ordinary Kenyan youth into a common philosophy leading to the publication and launch of the first ever Kenya Youth Manifesto. In addition, he is the author of several book chapters including the latest one titled Securitizing Youth which is recently published by Rutgers University Press based on the UN Security Resolution No. 2250 on the role of young people in global peace and security. He is a published columnist with The Star Newspaper, World Economic Forum, The Standard Newspaper, Huffington Post, Open Democracy among other platforms.

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