Nico Roman is a young historian, geographer and sustainability advocate, also a scholar at Winchester College UK. 

As a United Nations Child Ambassador for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Children’s Rights, he is working to help protect nature and the rights of future generations locally and globally. He is an active member and co founder of his college's Sustainability Council, and also a member of the Natural History Society, Model UN Club and captain of College football team.

He also serves co-chair of the Global Youth Council on Science, Law & Sustainability, where he is a senior editor of their online journal, Harmony, and an award-winning young author whose stories are published in the  Luna Spark anthologies (winning first place in the world for 2022). He is editor of the blog, nicosnaturalworld.org, with thousands of impressions annually, and also edits Futures, an anthology of stories by young authors worldwide, raising awareness and education about sustainability. Together with Wezi TS from Zambia, he also published a submission to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child General Comment 26 on climate justice.

Previously, as a founding co-chair of Cambridge Schools Eco-Council, he helped raise awareness about climate change in Cambridge UK, and co-led the Eco-Society in King’s College School. Together with his local team, he is also a national Rotary Young Environmentalist Award laureate for the local ‘Heron Project’ to protect the Cambridgeshire fenlands and fight climate change by reducing sources, restoring sinks, and mobilising schools and society for SDG 13 Climate Action, and leads a youth team working across the fenlands of Cambridgeshire to accredit the region as a Wetlands City under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance. He is also a recipient of the Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal and Ambassador’s Award from the Trust for Sustainable Living student debates in BC, Canada.

He enjoys drama and reading, painting models, swimming, canoeing and sailing, and exploring history, geography and science, and he plays the clarinet, sax and piano. He especially love nature – protecting endangered species like his two Hermann’s Tortoises and advancing the global Sustainable Development Goals for kids and for the future we want.