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New Global Normal is a youth-led not-for-profit social enterprise that strives to promote intercultural communication, engagement, and active global citizenship in youth communities worldwide.

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Gabby Green
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Noura McNelis Mahmoud
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Sudesh Thevasenbathy
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Brian Wong
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Gabby Green

Founder & Executive Director

Gabby Green is the Founder and Executive Director of New Global Normal. In 2023 Gabby graduated from the University of St Andrews with a First Class MA (Hons) in Economics and International Relations. Her dissertation entitled ‘The China Threat Narrative: A Genealogy. How does American exceptionalism shape US representations of and responses to the China threat narrative?’ received a distinction. In Autumn 2024 Gabby will commence a Double Master’s degree in the Global Political Economy of China and Europe at the London School of Economics and Fudan University. Inspired by her own experience growing up as a third culture kid in Hong Kong and South Korea and with Eurasian Sri Lankan and Anglo-Australian heritage, Gabby is on a mission to change the world for the better by promoting active global citizenship amongst the next generation.

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Noura McNelis Mahmoud

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Noura has always been passionate about cross-cultural connection and understanding; coming from a multi-religious, multicultural household, working to find unifying similarities and unique differences was instilled in her. As New Global Normal’s University of St Andrews Chapter President, Noura hopes to foster conversation and strength through the diversity of our school’s community.

Noura is currently a third year student at St Andrews, studying International Relations and Modern History. In her studies her interest lies in human rights, gender, and the constructs shaping our world. In my free time Noura enjoys writing opinion pieces and poetry, improving her Spanish, and baking for her friends.

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Sudesh Thevasenbathy

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Sudesh Thevasenabathy brings with over 25 years of experience specialising in customer experience, process efficiencies and change management across multiple industries including telecommunications, consumer products, manufacturing, banking, healthcare tech, insurance and D&I in Malaysia and Hong Kong, through his tenures with Ericsson, British American Tobacco, HSBC, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, AXA Hong Kong and now with Manulife Asia. Sudesh is currently Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Asia at Manulife based in Hong Kong responsible for driving the DEI agenda across the region for employees and customers. At Manulife, Sudesh focusses his efforts on the workforce, workplace, community and the business to ensure inclusion is embedded across the organisation and beyond. Before this, he served as Chief Operating Officer at Heals Healthcare Asia, and was formerly the Head of Customer Care Transformation at AXA Hong Kong looking to enhance customer experience through new innovation and technologies including AI and bots. He has received numerous awards in recognition of his work in the areas of customer experience across Asia.Shifting his career towards his passion for inclusion, Sudesh was the founding member of the AXA Hong Kong Diversity & Inclusion Council. He also won the 2019 LGBT+ Hong Kong Ally Award by Community Business and was named 2019 Global Top 50 LGBT+ OUTstanding Role Model (Involve.org) through his work for the LGBT+ community. He is a true believer and advocate of diversity and inclusion in the workplace and with customers, and actively works and speaks in supporting inclusion of all forms be it disability, race, gender, sexuality and multi-generational employees in various forums around the world. He recently helped Manulife win Best Diversity and Inclusion Asia Pacific by PRAsia and Excellence in D&I by HKIHRM. He’s also council member of ESF’s Jockey Club Sarah Roe School in Hong Kong, Advisory Council member of SENsational Foundation and an LGBT+ Ally Mentor alumni for Community Business’s Mentorship Programme. Sudesh also jointly co-chairs the Inclusion Collective with South China Morning Post, which is a coalition of 16 corporates and NGOs to drive diversity, equity and inclusion in Hong Kong. Sudesh is an Electronics and Computing engineering graduate and is Six Sigma, Lean and Human Centered Design trained. A change agent at heart, he is passionate about delivering the best experience possible for employees and customers at every level of any organisation.

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Brian Wong

Advisory Board

Dr. Brian Wong is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. His research examines the ethics and dynamics of authoritarian regimes and their foreign policies, historical and colonial injustices, and the intersection of geopolitics, political and moral philosophy, and technology.

Brian is a Fellow at the newly established Centre on Contemporary China and the World, at the University of Hong Kong. As the Chief Strategy Officer of the HK-ASEAN Foundation, he advises multi-national corporations, family offices, and leading think-tanks on geopolitical affairs and macro risks throughout Asia.

Having co-founded and now advises Oxford Political Review, a publication aspiring to bridge the theory-practice gap, Brian serves as a columnist at the Hong Kong Economic Journal. His writings on Chinese foreign policy and Sino-West relations can be found on publications such as TIME, Foreign Policy, Aeon, Financial Times, Diplomat, Fortune, South China Morning Post, Nikkei, Japan Times, and the US-Asia Law Institute.

A Rhodes Scholar (HKSAR, 2020), Brian holds a DPhil in Politics, an MPhil in Political Theory (Distinction), and an MA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford.

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