Michael Sheldrick is Global Advocacy and Policy Director at Global Citizen, where he oversees international advocacy campaigns in support of universal sanitation, access to education, gender equality and polio eradication. 

Michael oversees the policy direction of the renowned Global Citizen Festival and has worked on several campaigns with artists, heads of government and philanthropists including Rihanna, Beyoncé, Usher, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. He has been instrumental in mobilizing political and public support for the Sustainable Development Goals.

Michael's writing on these topics has been published by the Guardian, Huffington Post, The Diplomatic Courier, The Diplomat Magazine, The South China Morning Post, The West Australian, Fairfax Media and he has been interviewed by Sky News, Forbes Magazine, The New Yorker, ABC, and the BBC, among others. He holds degrees in law and political science from the University of Western Australia, was 2013 Young Western Australian of the Year, a state finalist for 2014 Australian of the Year and has previously been listed by The Sunday Times as one of WA's 50 Best and Brightest. In 2017, Michael was named by the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth as a finalist for Young Commonwealth Person of the Year.

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