About HNMUN

Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) is an annual conference for university students around the world to promote education about international relations and global affairs. HNMUN places students in the position of UN ambassadors and other world leaders, asking them to research and debate vital global problems.

This is the 56th year of promoting international understanding, cooperation, and the development of real world solutions. Topics at the conference vary year to year, but they always include pressing current events as well as important historical scenarios.

Each year, over 3,000 students from top universities from the United States and other nations around the world attend this prestigious conference. These students, motivated to tackle real world issues and driven to succeed, will be the leaders of tomorrow.

The conference is run entirely by a staff of Harvard undergraduates, over 180 strong. They are volunteers who devote a substantial portion of their time to handle the logistics of the conference, as well as to provide the substantive content for the student participants in order to make the conference possible, year after year.

HNMUN’s parent organization, the Harvard International Relations Council, is the 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation and a Non-Governmental Organization, officially associated with the United Nations.