Victoria Yates

I recently graduated at the University of Portsmouth with a First Class Bachelor Honours Degree in International Development which covered a broad overview of the world’s greatest problems. My dissertation thesis was called ‘How the Trump of the West and the Trump of the Tropics Play a Trump on Our Planet: A Critical Analysis of Climate Change Denial’. The purpose of this essay was to highlight common tropes of climate change denial and to alert attention to the danger this could have on sustainable development. From September 2021, I will be continuing my studies with a Msc in Climate Change, Development and Policy at the University of Sussex, which is the top university in the world for my subject area.

In 2019, I won the first stage of the Hult Prize with ‘Wireless Wild’ a start up focused on quantifying the losses in biodiversity due to climate change and development. The Hult Prize is the world’s largest student social entrepreneurship competition where entrepreneurs globally compete to win $1m funded by Bill Clinton to tackle the world’s biggest challenges aligning with the SDGs. In 2021, Victoria led the EMENA regional competition for the Hult Prize in the UK and currently, she is interning at the world’s largest student accelerator program for the next phase of the program working in the expert relations team alongside the CEO and COO.