Ivy Leadership Summit

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:

*2007 -“The Future of Energy: Analyzing the Problem and Debating Solutions.”- at Columbia University
*2006 -“Free Trade, Free Press, Free Society: Leadership in the Age of Globalization”- at Columbia University
*2005 -“Health, Economy, and the International Community”- at Princeton University
*2004 -“Responsibilities in a Globalized World” at Columbia University
*2003 -“American Ethics in Science & Medicine, Politics & Law, Media, and Business”- University of Pennsylvania
*2001 -“Sharing the Torch: Leadership in the New Millennium” at Harvard University
*2000 -“Integrity and Ethics” at Yale University

Ivy Leadership Summit 2008

The Ivy Leadership Summit 2008 will take place on February 1-2, 2008 at the University of Pennsylvania. The focus of the ILS 2008 has been shifted from the assessment of a public policy issue to the study of leadership. At the Summit students will explore the application of leadership in theory, practice and action. Students will approach the different areas of leadership through interactive case studies, workshops, panel discussions, keynote speeches and historical excursions. The goal of the conference is to cultivate young leadership by exposing students to innovators in the fields of government, business, academia and humanitarianism.

There are currently 28 University of Pennsylvania students and 8 liaisons on the other Ivy League campuses working to produce the Ivy Leadership Summit 2008. The Executive Board consists of the following Penn students:

*Chair – Enoch Arthur-Asmah
*Vice Chair, – Soo Jin Lim

*Chair, Communications Committee – Julia Adam
*Chair, Finance Committee – Sunny Saxena
*Chair, Logistics Committee – Jacklyn Fei [ [http://www.ivycouncil.org Ivy Council ] ]

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