Many congratulations to Shamir Shehab, an alumni of NSU Electricla and Computer Engineering Department , who is one of the 60 exceptional young individuals chosen from across the Commonwealth to have received a prestigious Queen’s Young Leaders award on the 22nd of June 2015, for his work in Bangladesh to educate young people on climate change.

Shamir set up the Bangladesh Youth Environmental Initiative when he became concerned about the effect of climate change on his country. Since 2009 it has trained more than 500 young environmental leaders and set up 30 environmental school clubs. The initiative runs the National Earth Olympiad, which educates students about climate change.