Climate activist Melati Wijsen

Guru / Thought leader

1 hour

NL, EN

Globalization,
Change management,
Innovation,
Sustainable Business,
Sustainable Lifestyle

Influence,
Inform

Melati Wijsen is a 22-year-old Dutch-Indonesian full-time changemaker. She founded Bye Bye Plastic Bags with her younger sister and has been leading the youth-driven movement since 2013 at the age of 12. Make a no-obligation request on ShowBird and who knows Melati will give a speech at your event!

Melati Wijsen (born 2001) is an Indonesian climate activist. She has been taking action against plastic pollution for years and with great success; at a young age, she succeeded in making the island of Bali free of plastic bags. To gain public attention, in 2016 she organized a hunger strike from dawn to dusk and successfully demanded a meeting with the then governor of Bali, I Made Mangku Pastika . The campaign led Pastika to sign an order banning Styrofoam, plastic bags and straw from the island starting in 2018. In 2017, she spoke at the United Nations World Ocean Day in New York City. In 2020, Melati was an invited speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos. In 2019, a documentary film about Melati Wijsen titled Bigger than Us was released. The film nominated at Cannes recently appeared in Dutch movie houses. Melati is the founder of Youthtopia, a platform for youth empowerment.

Topics Melati covers:

-Youth empowerment
-Education
-Women in leadership
-Change
-Sustainability
-Circular economy

Melati Wijsen has given global TED talks and spoken at world venues such as the UN. She has also been selected as FORBES top ten most inspiring women in America. She graduated from high school a year early and has since been honored by TIME as part of its annual list of the world's most influential teens, along with CNN Heroes Young Wonders & FORBES 30 under 30.

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