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You will represent students’ priorities and interests to the Union relating to the environmental sustainability of the Union, UCL and wider student life. Working with the President, represent these priorities and interests to UCL and beyond, chair the Student Sustainability Council, develop an effective and engaged network of Student Sustainability Ambassadors, and contribute to the implementation of the Union’s Sustainability Strategy.
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Candidates
- Leadership & Strong Communication: As a UCL Economics Academic Rep, I’ve successfully collected various feedback from 500+ international students into proposals for faculty. This cultivated my strong cross-cultural communication skills and to accurately convey students' needs.
- Technical Assistance: My strong background in data analysis means I can support the Union’s Sustainability Strategy by accurately evaluate its effectiveness.
Bridge the Gap between high-level policy and daily campus life by actively assisting presidents and cohorts. Currently, I am working with a NGO designing a sustainable framework for the UK’s carbon transition. This has given me a deep technical understanding of how to make sustainability economically viable, by providing quantitative and qualitative evidence.
My Value：I offer professionalism with a purpose.
My Conviction：Students' voice. I will ensure that being "green" at UCL is accessible, affordable, and rewarding for every student.
As a Chemical Engineer, I see sustainability through a problem-solving lens — not just as a value, but as something you design. I've lived this: I led a seven-month plastic drive recycling 20kg of waste and founded the Green Design Project, turning plastic bottles into planters to shift everyday habits. As UCL's Course Rep, I know how to listen to students and actually act on what I hear. I bring organisation, genuine passion, and the ability to turn ideas into tangible change — because at UCL, sustainability shouldn't be a conversation, it should be a commitment.
Sustainability at UCL shouldn't live in a bubble. My biggest goal is to bridge it with other student networks — because when sustainability intersects with international student experiences, women's voices, and departmental culture, it actually sticks. I also want to use my role as Course Rep to get into those faculty conversations that most students never access — and push for greener habits where decisions are actually made. Big change at UCL won't come from one campaign. It'll come from building the right connections, and that's exactly what I want to start.
I'm not running because sustainability sounds good on a CV — I'm running because I've already been doing this work. From recycling drives to redesigning everyday habits through the Green Design Project, I've always believed small, well-designed actions create real change. As a Chemical Engineer and your Course Rep, I bring both the technical mindset and the student relationships to actually move things forward at UCL. Vote for me because sustainability deserves someone who'll treat it like a problem worth solving — and won't stop until it is.
We bring synergetic skills to the role: Thalia’s work within the SU gives her a strong understanding of its structures, while Moosa brings experience organising change through the Sustainability Council.
Moosa was crucial in reviving the UK Student Sustainability Council, and has worked with the banking and political taskforces giving him the perspective and experience to strengthen SusCo.
With Plant-Based Universities, Thalia has drafted Union Policy; met and talked with student and staff members of the SU; and lobbied support for increasing affordable, sustainable plant-based food.
Switch away from Barclays:
Switch UCL from Barclays, who invest heavily in fossil fuels and the arms industry; increase student awareness of environmental impacts of who they bank with.
Cheap and sustainable food:
Lower the price of sustainable food; increase cultural diversity in food options; and increase plant-based options.
Climate in the curriculum:
Integrate sustainability into course curriculums to equip students with the skills to tackle the threat that climate change poses.
Hold the Student’s Union accountable:
Be vocal and radical in meetings; and ensure Union policy is enacted.
We have clear, impact-oriented goals that we are dedicated to achieve.
Each of us brings unique, practical skills that will allow us to be effective in our goals.
We understand how to change things at UCL because of our learned experience.
As active members of sustainability organisations, we are genuinely committed to sustainability at UCL.
We are dedicated and passionate about making this university better, and it would be our honour and privilege to be given the opportunity to serve as your sustainability officers.
Sustainability has been part of my life long before university—I spent a decade running a community garden on what used to be a dumpsite, and I've planted mangroves, cleaned rivers and beaches, and worked on urban farms simply because I care. That means when I talk to students about sustainability, it doesn't feel like a pitch—it feels like a conversation I'm already having. As PlanetPoints Ambassador for Reewild, I learned that getting people to act comes down to making it easy and relatable, which is exactly how I'd approach building an ambassador network here.
I want students to feel like sustainability is something they're part of, not just something the Union does at them. Practically, I'd focus on making the ambassador network genuinely active—people who run things, not just hold a title—and use that to push student priorities into real conversations with UCL. I also want to close the gap between students who are already engaged and those who aren't yet, because that's where the biggest impact is. My background in environmental engineering means I can engage with UCL's institutional sustainability commitments seriously, not just symbolically.
I don't just care about sustainability on paper—I've been doing it since I was a kid, from turning a dumpsite into a garden to planting mangroves and cleaning rivers. At UCL I've already been working to get students to make greener choices, and I know how to make that feel normal rather than preachy. If you want someone who will actually show up, listen to what students need, and push hard for real change—not just run events for the sake of it—that's what I'm here to do
In Sixth Form, I undertook the role as leader of Environmental Society; I worked closely with the school council to implement sustainable concepts e.g increased access to recycling bins, encouraging turning off lights and devices when not in use. As well as this, I curated content on the societies' social media page to spread awareness of our work and we also held presentations. I also engage with the Teach the Future campaign, aiming to increase the standard of sustainability in schools and engaging in petitions to increase climate education and implement it to national curriculum.
A move for the future would be to ensure that basic climate education is widely accessible to students regardless of degree subject. I would push for the concepts of sustainability and climate action to be communicated through UCL's main forms of media as well as increasing the number of sustainability related workshops take place throughout the institution. In order to tackle UCL's carbon footprint, I'd back their current goals in reducing foodwaste, encouraging correct waste disposal and recycling as well as pushing for investments to be targeted towards renewable energy over fossil fuels.
I'm running for Sustainability Officer in hopes that I'll be able to take an active role in reducing UCLs carbon footprint as well as encouraging our institute to focus research on renewable energy technologies. With previous experience leading an Environmental Society and studying Environmental Science at A-Level, I undertook deeper research on the future of a sustainable economy, reducing pollution and implementing sustainable concepts in a smaller scale environment. Currently, I'm also helping with Teach the Future's campaign to push our government to implement climate education in schools.
I am not just someone who studied why and how environmental policies fail, I have also worked on the front line of a global company, where I learned how to actually persuade people to change their behavior and stick to it.
May research on marine conservation taught me to analyze complex problems and map competing interests, and the more I learnt about environmental ethics and policies, the more it pushed me to question the systems we live in.
I bring persuasion, enthusiasm and genuine commitment to turning sustainability from slogan into something we actually do!
I want to bridge the gap between students and the UCL's commitment to net zero.
I will push for clearer communication on UCL's progress. Students will know what is actually being done, when, how and WHY.
I will advocate for sustainability to be embedded across departments. Every discipline should ask: What does sustainability mean here?
I will champion better lab waste reduction and sustainable catering options.
I want to make sure we actually hold our university accountable, not just applaud its ambitions.
I won't just talk, I will actually do the work.
I have studied sustainability academically, so I understand the complexity. I have worked at Apple, which helped me build communication, leadership and organizational skills, as well as relaying complex information in simple terms.
I will push UCL to be transparent about its progress and fight for sustainability to reach each department. I will champion better lab waste practices and ethical catering because it's the details that matter.
Vote for someone who bring genuine commitment for the action. Vote for progress, not promises.