Aayami Jaguri is 17 years old and is currently a Year 12 student in Doha College. As an active member of her MUN club for over 5 years, she has participated in over 14 conferences, including THIMUN, DCMUN, PHESMUN, and MISMUN. She volunteers as an MUN trainer for students at her school, using her extensive MUN experience in the roles of a press member, delegate, and student officer to help others along their MUN journey. Within the wider community, she volunteers at health camps for migrant workers and health awareness campaigns. She expresses her gratitude for MUN for teaching her diplomacy, patience, and critical thinking, and inspiring her to do more for society. It is her firm belief that MUN is a platform where delegates can increase their awareness of global issues and learn to give back to their community. She has also been involved in her school’s eco-committee and has held several leadership positions as House Captain and Sports Captain. She has grown as an active public speaker and presented in the Weill Cornell Symposium and Council of British International Schools Medical Review. In her free time, she plays the piano, competes in sports, and participates in courses on coding and computer science. She passionately believes in the potential of ground-breaking new technologies to revolutionize our society and has written articles for her school magazine on genetic engineering nanotechnology.

Arunima Srivastav is a 16-year-old girl who has lived more than two-thirds of her life in Doha, Qatar. Her interests are, primarily, science, technology, and maths. She believes that technology has had a profound impact on people’s lives and technology to come, including AI and Machine Learning, which will revolutionize the tasks that humans do. Arunima hopes to pursue a career in this field. She is an advocate for equal access to education and would like to create readily accessible material about AI and technology, fields that she believes hold the key to success in the future. Being an Indian, she has witnessed the vast socio-economic divides between the people and hopes that access to education for youth and adults alike will lift people out of poverty and help nations progress. To do her part, she has started her own podcast to share her love of all things science. Being interested in debate and prevalent issues in today’s society, Arunima enjoys participating in the Model United Nations (MUN) club at her school. She believes that debate and discussion in a forum such as MUN allows people to not only understand issues in today’s society, including access to education and climate change, to name a few, but also brainstorm solutions to these problems. She has participated in and been a chair for various debates and MUN conferences including DCMUN, ODTC, and DESMUN. At the Qatar Leadership Conference, she hopes to share her passion for technology and spark engaging discussion about the technology to come in the future.