Jaewon Choi

About Jaewon Choi

Jaewon Choi is a youth non-profit leader and stakeholder-rights advocate. He is the incumbent Executive Director and an ex officio Trustee of the DMUN Foundation, a youth-led non-governmental organization providing free education and capacity-building on multilateralism and sustainable development. In this role, he works to broaden meaningful youth participation in global governance. His efforts contributed to the removal of age-based barriers during the Preparatory Committee process for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), facilitating direct engagement of children in critical UN processes.The DMUN Foundation operates the world’s largest independent virtual Model United Nations conference, and its programs welcome over young people from more than 162 countries.Mr. Choi also serves as Managing Director of the Katija Hyoungjoo Neuber Institute, a youth-led policy think tank under the auspices of the DMUN Foundation. The Institute provides policy research and recommendations to strengthen youth stakeholder contributions in multilateral institutions, and supports advocacy coordination and accreditation for young people seeking access to intergovernmental bodies and meetings. Its flagship Global Youth Representatives program offers a participation pathway to engage with over 36 intergovernmental organizations, covering approximately 172 meetings per year.Mr. Choi has represented youth and civil society at forums including RFSD 2024, the World Bank–IMF Spring Meetings, the UN Civil Society Conference, and the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), among other engagements.He additionally serves as Thematic Focal Point on International Tax Cooperation for the Financing for Development (FfD) Children and Youth Constituency of the UN Major Group for Children and Youth (MGCY). Within negotiations related to the proposed United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation, he supports the participation of MGCY’s organizational members and has been continuously involved in sessions of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee and the Ad Hoc Committee drafting the Terms of Reference. Beyond tax cooperation, he contributes to MGCY engagement across the ECOSOC system—including the Committee of Experts on International Tax Cooperation and the ECOSOC Special Meeting on Tax—and supports youth engagement around the High Seas Treaty process and UN General Assembly High-Level Week.

Experience

1. Member, Executive Committee

   Launchpad

   Jun 2025 — Present

Education

• Columbia University School of Professional Studies

  Non-credit Course, Philosophy

• Phillips Academy

  High School Diploma