Ivy Leadership Summit
Ivy Leadership Summit (ILS) is an annual two-day conference hosted by the Ivy Council to bring together students from the eight Ivy League universities along with leaders from the business, government, academics, and non-profit sectors of society. The conference is usually held in February and its location is rotated each year through the campuses of the schools in the Ivy League.
ILS was originally created to promote the exchange of ideas between students of the Ivy League and today’s leaders on subjects of public policy such as affirmative action and ethics in science and technology. The first ILS was held at Yale University in 2000 and had the topic of “Integrity and Ethics.” Eighty participants were selected from a pool of applicants throughout the Ivy League. The main activities of the conference were keynote speakers, panels, and roundtable discussions. Since then, Ivy Council has held six conferences each with their own topics of discussion. Past speakers have included Steve Forbes, Chairman and CEO of Forbes magazine; Nasreen Berwari, Iraqi Minister of Municipalities and General Works; Jeffrey Sachs, special adviser to the UN’s Millennium Development; Theodore Roosevelt IV, Managing Director at Lehman Brothers and prominent environmentalist; and Dov Zakheim, US Undersecretary of Defense. The list of past summits is listed below according to year, topic, and school:
- 2012 ILS XII -“The Ivy Lead”- at Harvard University
- 2011 ILS XI -“Advancing Leadership: Navigating the Post-Crash Climate.”- at Princeton University
- 2010 ILS X -“Fearless Leadership in the 21st Century.”- at Yale University
- 2009 ILS IX -“Leading in the Globalizing Community.”- at Brown University
- 2008 ILS VIII -“Creating the Leader.”- at University of Pennsylvania
- 2007 ILS VII -“The Future of Energy: Analyzing the Problem and Debating Solutions.”- at Columbia University
- 2006 ILS VI -“Free Trade, Free Press, Free Society: Leadership in the Age of Globalization”- at Columbia University
- 2005 ILS V -“Health, Economy, and the International Community”- at Princeton University
- 2004 ILS IV -“Responsibilities in a Globalized World” at Columbia University
- 2003 ILS III -“American Ethics in Science & Medicine, Politics & Law, Media, and Business”- University of Pennsylvania
- 2001 ILS II -“Sharing the Torch: Leadership in the New Millennium” at Harvard University
- 2000 ILS I -“Integrity and Ethics” at Yale University
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