John Loughton - International Career

International Career

Loughton has led a high-profile international career spanning a number of years. He represented the United Kingdom at various international conferences including the Austrian and Portuguese European Union Summits. Loughton has also designed and delivered youth leadership training in countries such as Sri Lanka, Malawi, Singapore, France, Portugal, Australia and is founded a bilateral young leaders exchange between the UK and Sri Lanka and a Young Health Leaders programme with Turkey.

He is Chairman of the Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council's Youth Action Group and a member of their Board of Directors. Loughton represented the United Kingdom at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2011 in Perth, Western Australia. This namely involved serving as an International Planning Group Representative for the Commonwealth Youth Forum - bringing together 150 young leaders from across the 54 Commonwealth member states. He was also selected as British Prime Minister for the Youth Diplomatic Service, to attend the G8 and G20 Summits in Washington DC in June 2012. Loughton is also a 'graduate' of the prestigious United Nations UNESCO World Leaders Fellowship Programme, having taken part in their event at the University of Connecticut.

Loughton was recognised in 2004 for his contribution to the community by being presented with the Evening News award for “Community Involvement” and was named runner up as National Charity Champion of the year in 2008. He was also a Finalist for the highly regarded Spirit of London Awards 2012 - held at London's 02 Arena to a 10,000 strong audience.