Forums and debate
Most of what I understand about how decisions actually get made, I learned in rooms I did not organise. Some I was in to listen. Some I was in to argue. The difference between the two turned out to matter less than I expected.
What the results do not show is what the practice built: the ability to hold a position under pressure, listen to a counterargument and adjust without losing the thread. That transfers to everything else on this site more directly than any trophy does.
Speaking on record
Moments from across the rounds at the MOE-ACJC Intercollegiate Debating Championship. 2025.
Winning speech at the Ideological Turing Test, where you argue a position you do not hold. John Locke Institute PPE, 2025.
Representing Switzerland in the CSTD at Yale Model United Nations, debating AI in education. 2026.
In the rounds
Best Delegate, Yale Model United Nations Singapore, 2024, 2025 and 2026. Champion and 1st Best Speaker, Thoburn Cup 2022. Best Speaker, Ideological Turing Test, John Locke Institute PPE Summer School 2025, arguing a position I did not hold before an international cohort.
Alongside the competitions, I have hosted or moderated more than ten school events since 2023, most of them in front of 500 to 1,000 students. The full record is here.
Debating and Model United Nations, 2023 to 2026.
What these rooms taught me is not on any results sheet. How to hold a position when someone competent is dismantling it, and how to tell the difference between being persuaded and being outmanoeuvred.