Jahin Tanvir
Jahin Tanvir is the CEO of the Australian School of Entrepreneurship, Australia's largest innovation provider. Jahin is a 3-time TEDx speaker, board director, and was named on the 40 under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians for 2022, at the age of 21-years-old. As an award-winning advocate for young people, and diversity and inclusion, Jahin was named the 2022 Young Australian of the Year finalist whilst also receiving the 2021 Young Canberra Citizen of the Year

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Testimonials for Jahin Tanvir
Jahin Tanvir speaks directly to the potential for greatness that lives within every audience member. His combination of personal story, wisdom beyond his years and actionable advice makes him the ideal keynote speaker, panelist or media spokesperson. Our audience loved him and yours will too!
CEO Campus Consultancy
In an MC role, Jahin Tanvir ensures that all speakers in his session are comfortable and feel supported to participate. He works well with event staff and is committed to preparing to contribute to an event. He is enthusiastic and passionate about youth engagement and we look forward to continuing working with him in the future.
National Youth Commission Australia
Never one to let an opportunity slip past me, I sought Jahin Tanvir’s views about a number of these same issues while also enquiring into the mechanisms that would potentially be of most value in seeking the views of children and young people.
ACT Children’s Human Rights Commissioner
Jahin Tanvir brings honest and insightful reflections and recommendations on how young people should be engaged at different levels of decision making, service design and delivery. Jahin promotes a continuous improvement approach to the delivery of services for multicultural young people. We look forward to a continued working relationship with Jahin and commend his readiness to support and mentor up and coming youth advocates to be part of conversations and decisions that impact their lives.
Multicultural Youth Affairs Network of Australia
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Jahin Tanvir's Biography
Jahin Tanvir is the CEO of the Australian School of Entrepreneurship, Australia's largest innovation provider. Jahin is a 3-time TEDx speaker, board director, and was named on the 40 under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians for 2022, at the age of 21-years-old.
As an award-winning advocate for young people, and diversity and inclusion, Jahin was named the 2022 Young Australian of the Year finalist whilst also receiving the 2021 Young Canberra Citizen of the Year in Individual Community Service. Jahin is a Board Director at the Adolescent Health Association of Australia, a UNICEF Young Ambassador and Movember Ambassador.
Jahin founded his first company, Breathe. at the age of 21-years-old. Breathe. was an EdTech social enterprise providing public speaking education in the form of workshops and machine learning to young people from marginalised communities around Australia. In 6 months, Breathe. impacted over 16,000 individuals. Breathe. was then successfully acquired by the ASE Group in November 2022, and Jahin appointed the new CEO of The Australian School of Entrepreneurship.
The ASE has impacted over 180,000 people across Australia and the globe.
Jahin is a regular media commentator and has appeared on ABC News, ABC’s The Drum, Channel 10, and Channel 9.
Jahin received the Zest Awards Outstanding Youth Leader of the year for 2021 for his work in assisting multicultural communities in Western Sydney, and has represented Australia on the global stage in Rome and Milan at United Nations and WHO conferences in 2021, speaking at events with the likes of Barack Obama, Malcolm Turnbull, and the Governor-General.
In the academic field, Jahin has been invited as a Guest Lecturer at the University of Melbourne for young people on mental health and was recently published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, a peer-reviewed medical journal that covers adolescent health and medicine. He was a founding member of the COVID-19 Youth Reference Group at the Department of Health, and an active research commissioner at the Centre of Research Excellence in Adolescent Health and Murdoch Institute of Children’s Research. Jahin's academic background resides in Optometry.
As a first-generation migrant, Jahin’s vision is to empower people from diverse backgrounds in decision-making and conversations in Australia, representing the multiculturalism of Australia. He is also an Angel Investor and has invested into two companies thus far in electrical energy, and medical technology.
To enquire about Jahin enquire directly with Helene Greenham at helene@platinumspeakers.com.au
Speaking Topics Include
Gen Z leadership
Diversity and inclusion - Jahin uses his lived experience for empowerment when discussing anything to do with diversity and overcoming racism and discrimination.
Leadership - Using leadership from a young person of colour’s point of view – CALD and from Multicultural background.
MC and host
Young CALD person of colour for the diversity and allowing representation.
Mental health - Jahin uses his lived experience with crippling anxiety and how to overcome it and be strong in endeavours. He also talks about CALD mental health and breaking stigmas and taboos.
Youth empowerment - Jahin is a powerful speaker when it comes to young people and young people’s issues.

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