The G200 Youth Forum 2017 (6 December — 10 December 2017, Dubai, the United Arab Emirates) will be organised by the Swiss-based G200 Association. The 12th G200 Youth Forum will be one of the largest international events organised for young leaders from around 200 countries in 2017. And over 300 young leaders, students and academics, representatives of the business world and governments are participating in it.The G200 Youth Forum 2017 has 5 main platforms which run in tandem with each other:G200 Youth Summit – resulting in the Communiqué;Conference – with publication of academic articles in the Conference Proceedings;International Young Parliamentarians’ Debate – with Joint Statement;The G200 Young Professionals Platform - resulting in the ‘Perspectives’;The G200 Entrepreneurs Platform – best practises exchanges;Also, there are Joint Sessions of the five platforms – with Joint Sessions reportsThis is the 12th year of the Forum. Previous events were held in:2006 – G8 Youth Summit – Russia (Saint-Petersburg);2007 – G8 Youth Summit – Germany (Berlin);2008 – G8 Youth Summit – Japan (Tokyo);2009 – G8 Youth Summit – Italy (Milano);2010 – G20 Youth Summit – Canada (Vancouver);2011 – G20 Youth Summit – France (Paris);2012 – G20 Youth Summit – USA (Washington D.C.);2013 – G20 Youth Forum – Russia (Saint-Petersburg);2014 – G20 Youth Forum – Germany (Garmisch Partenkirchen); and2015 – G200 Youth Forum – Germany (Garmisch Partenkirchen);2016 – G200 Youth Forum – Germany (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria).