



RAZEL SUANSING
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Klima. Youngest Chief Political Affairs Officer in the Philippine House of Representatives.
Razel Suansing is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Klima, the largest climate education organisation built from and for the Global South, operating across all seventeen regions of the Philippines. In 2026, UNICEF named her a Bright Spot Finalist for its Leading Minds Fellowship on Climate Education, selected from more than 18,000 applicants across over 150 countries.
She is concurrently the youngest Chief Political Affairs Officer in the Philippine House of Representatives, serving a constituency of 400,000. She has led the legislative research and drafting behind landmark instruments on internal displacement, the prevention of torture, the strengthening of the national human rights institution, Bangsamoro history in the national curriculum, and the country's national artificial intelligence strategy, and convenes the working group behind the Philippines' first Congressional inquiry on climate risk vulnerability.
Razel read Political Science at Yale University with Honours and Distinction, receiving the Charles W. Clarke Prize in Comparative Politics, Yale's highest prize in the field. She is an incoming Master of Studies candidate in Social Innovation at the University of Cambridge, and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Asia-Pacific Sustainability Leadership Fellow.
She has spoken to an audience of over 3,000 people including AlterCOP 30 Philippines, the One Young World ASEAN Leadership Forum, the French Embassy Manila, ACTED 3ZERO House, and moderated a fireside conversation with 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk.
Notable Awards
YALE UNIVERSITY: Charles W. Clarke Prize in Comparative Politics
UNICEF: Bright Spot Finalist, Leading Minds Fellowship on Climate Education (Top out of 18,000)
WE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION: Three Dot Dash Global Teen Leader
MIT: Asia-Pacific Sustainability Leadership Fellow
YALE LAW SCHOOL: Kirby Simon International Human Rights Fellow (two-time); Only Filipino Undergraduate Human Rights Fellow
JOHN LOCKE INSTITUTE (OXFORD): Essay Competition Finalist for Politics and Law
IASAS: Oral Interpretation International Champion
ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION: National Finalist, English-Speaking Union Philippines national public speaking competition, 2018, youngest competitor at age 16