Diana Garlytska

Diana Garlytska's greatest passions are youth engagement in nature conservation, storytelling and academic work. Over nine years in academia, Diana taught in more than a dozen countries across Europe and Asia as a visiting lecturer. Diana has written several workbooks for BA level students and created her author course on ‘Sustainable Business Development’. Diana Garlytska is IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC) member since 2018 and IUCN CEC West Europe Regional Vice Chair since 2022. 

Diana Garlytska has a solid track in the global environmental youth movement. She was a Steering Committee Co-Chair (2018-February 2022) and has been on the steering committee of CoalitionWILD (2019-February 2022). She is now on the Advisory Board of CoalitionWILD. In 2021 Diana Garlytska was a member of the youth working group of IUCN Global Youth Summit, co-authored its outcome statement, and had the honour of presenting it at the IUCNWorld Conservation Congress in Marseille, France. In 2022 Diana was Youth Task Force member for Stockholm+50 and actively contributed to youth work in environmental policy development, participating at COY17 and COP27 as a speaker.

In 2022, Diana attended SB58 and COP28 as well as the NATO Public Forum, and co-organised RCOY East Europe under YOUNGO, UNFCCC, allowing youth in her part of the world to convene, network and cooperate. Later that year she proceeded with her PhD research in environmental finance. After many years of involvement and leadership in youth engagement in IUCN, Diana is now a member of the recently established IUCN Youth Advisory Committee.