Dev Sharma

Hi, I'm Dev Sharma! I'm a 19-year-old Food Activist. Currently chairing the UK’s first ever youth-led parliamentary inquiry into the cost of living, I've been a powerful voice for youth on issues such as holiday hunger and Free School Meals, drawing on my own experiences at school to speak on behalf of my peers.

By age 15, I helped spark the child food poverty campaign Marcus Rashford led in 2020. I have delivered a Food Charter to no. 10 Downing Street, met with a number of key influential figures such as Michelle Obama and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and I won the lauded Diana Award for my food poverty activism.

I was a key contributor to the campaign for the worlds first total online ban in junk food marketing, starting an online open letter campaign to Boris Johnson (then Prime Minister) so that young people in my community could choose the food they wanted without the nonstop corporate pressure. The campaign was successful, in June 2021, it was included by the government into the Queen's speech, after the campaign was supported by celebrities such as Jamie Oliver and other food charities.