Alex Lew

SOAS, Singapore

Alex is a climate activist from Singapore. Alex Lew was selected as a youth speaker and moderator for the Cultural Wisdom for Climate Action: The Southeast Asian Contribution At The Siam Society Under Royal Patronage, Bangkok, Thailand. The Southeast Asian Cultural Heritage Alliance (SEACHA), is a network of Southeast Asian civil society organizations engaged in cultural heritage conservation work. It seeks to promote effective government-community partnership in cultural heritage management, to strengthen the ASEAN socio-cultural community as a people-centered third pillar of ASEAN.Recently, he is also an academic presenter for the Workshop on Climate Change, Human Mobility, and Human Rights organised by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights & Humanitarian Law where he presented on Fake News in Post-Truth Societies: Policy Response to Disinformation on Climate Change in Thailand and Singapore and worked on a multi-disciplinary research collaboration centered on the Asia Pacific region.

His recent appointment as a rapporteur at COP27 for the Children and Youth Pavilion was a step ahead as it was held for the first time in a UNFCCC event.