Europe

• Stories
• Community Engagement

These Obama Leaders alumni are giving back, mentoring new cohorts, and proving that leadership doesn’t end—it evolves.

• Stories
• Building the Center

• Scholars
• Changemakers

Hear from Joséphine Goube on how her nonprofit, Sistech, helps foster connections between refugee women and professionals, breaking stereotypes and building mutual understanding

• Leaders
• Equality

Learn how Filip Koprčina is using blockchain to democratize renewable energy through co-ownership of solar and wind farms.

• Leaders
• Changemakers

More than 140,000 women across 155 countries have educational and entrepreneurial opportunities, thanks to the 2023 Obama Leaders.

• Equality
• Defending Democracy

Hear directly from Adrijana Hanušić Bećirović as she talks about human rights and what the Obama Leadership program has meant to her.

• Sustainability
• Leaders

Obama Leader improves sustainability policies in Europe

• Education
• Leaders

Find out how Elpida is making a difference for female entrepreneurs in Kenya.

• Defending Democracy
• Leaders

• Changemakers
• Equality

Disability rights activist and Obama Leader Yuliia Sachuk was in her apartment in Kyiv the night of February 24, when Russia invaded Ukraine.

• Leaders
• Event

To mark the end of our inaugural Leaders Europe program, our 35 Leaders came together to design collaborative projects to support the civic engagement of other emerging leaders across Europe.

• Event
• Global Reach

President Obama joined hundreds of emerging European leaders in Germany for a town hall conversation to discuss the future of Europe and the importance of leadership in creating lasting change in the region and beyond.

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• Watch

President Obama heard from 11 emerging leaders working as civil servants, organizers and more from across Europe for a conversation on civic and engagement and to better understand how the Obama Foundation can can equip them with the tools and resources th