Dr. Vishal H. Joseph is a youth advocate and budding medical practitioner from the Cooperative Republic of Guyana. He serves as CARICOM Youth Ambassador for his country, as well as one of two Caribbean Regional Focal Points for the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth.

Mr. Joseph is a distance learning graduate of the University of Cambridge and has just completed reading for his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), in Guyana.

Vishal has, and continues to serve in many capacities, such as, being a member of the Red Cross’ National Disaster Intervention Team, on steering committees in the Lions/Leos Movement, as a project ambassador of the One World Youth Project, on the Guyana National Youth Council (GNYC) and on the Members and Partnerships Committee of the Caribbean Regional Youth Council (CRYC), with extended affiliations to other domestic, regional and international civil society organisations.

He has also made contributions towards the drafting of the National Disaster Plan of Guyana, national ICT youth engagement mechanisms as well as, fostering and catalysing civic engagement in political representation. With a penchant for the promotion of education and value systems in support thereof, he founded Bookworms, a nonprofit which serves children and students from disadvantaged socioeconomic settings in Guyana.

He is an aspiring statesman with a passion for promotion of national values. For these engagements, as well as his contributions to the human and social development of Guyanese people, Mr. Joseph was appointed as a Queen’s Young Leader in 2015 by HM Queen Elizabeth II, and in 2016 as an Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society.

He is also a recipient of a national youth award from the Government of Guyana.