Sameer Pirzada is the Director of Partnerships at Model UN Academy, the world’s largest youth-led educational Model UN nonprofit, with 18,000 students across 101 countries. As Director of Partnerships, he’s currently working with partners such as MedGlobal, DePaul University’s Grace School of Applied Diplomacy, and the United Nations Association of Chicago while also collaborating with Harvard National Model UN–Latin America.

Sameer is studying Network Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Political Science at Purdue University. He’s also a senator representing over 6,000 students of the Polytechnic Institute on Purdue Student Government’s Student Senate. He is additionally the Campus Outreach Chair for Purdue Information Technology Professionals. 

Sameer has attended multiple conferences in Chicagoland, and is a part of Model United Nations at Purdue. He hopes to take his knowledge as a Model UN veteran to continue educating the diplomats of the next generation.