Sam Barratt is Chief of Youth, Education and Advocacy at UN Environment Programme (UNEP). At UNEP, he co-founded the Playing for the Planet Alliance, a collaboration with the video gaming industry to nudge gamers’ behaviour and for the industry to use cleaner energy.  He also oversees the work of UNEP’s to support Higher Education to decarbonise and shift the mindsets towards sustainability in universities across the world, overseas the collaboration with youth networks such as the Scouts and Girl Guides as well as the sports portfolio across the organisation.  Previously, Sam worked as Chief of Public Advocacy for UNEP where he ran all of the global campaigns on the issues of air quality, marine litter and wildlife crime. Before joining the UN, Sam was Director of Communications for Avaaz and Head of Press for Oxfam and he has a degree in Politics from Liverpool University and can be followed on Twitter at @samdbarratt.