Welcome to the International Youth Leadership Network – an online forum for young leaders, universities and businesses to Discover, Participate, Question, Engage, Empower, Contribute and Benefit.
International Youth Leadership Network (IYLN) is a world-wide initiative, designed to connect young leaders to existing leadership opportunities and resources. The IYLN brings together young people interested in unique capacity building programs that strenghten their leadership potential, as well as professionals interested in mentoring these future world leaders.
IYLN brings you the following features, which we hope will help you re-discover leadership and take advantage of vast leadership opportunities and resources, available to you online and in real life.
Upcoming Events:
Prague, Czech Republic. 21st – 26th July, 2013
The 26th International Youth Leadership Conference
Join students from around the world for the experience of a lifetime!
United Arab Emirates, Dubai.
November 30th to December 5th, 2013
4th International Youth Leadership Conference
Join students from around the world for the leadership experience of a lifetime!
Alumni In Action
Meet alumni of the IYLC
Patricia Stallings
Patricia Stallings Patricia participated in the IYLC in the winter of 2006 under the sponsorship of Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, USA. Her experience in Prague was her first trip outside of the US! She graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2006 with BS (Honors) in Policy & Management, Environmental Policy as an additional major, Engineering Studies minor and Pre-law concentration. S
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Manuel Delgado Gomez
Manuel Delgado Gomez 11th IYLC alumnus Mexico The IYLC has been one of my best experiences ever in all my life. To begin with, I must say that it was my first time to travel all alone and get out of the continent where I live and arrive in such different place. The people I met were awesome and they are still my best friends ever. It's incredible to know that languages and religion are not
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Lukas Port
Lukas Port (UK) I took part in the 9th IYLC conference in 2005 not only a s a participant, but also as part of the organising team handling public relations and sponsoring, prior to the kick off of the conference. The conference was a brilliant cultural cocktail properly shaken and stirred, which brought together exceptional young individuals from around the world. World politics and issues unkn
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Naeem Formuli
Naeem Formuli (Afghanistan) Naeem Formuli was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. He participated in the IYLC in winter2005 and worked as a facilitator in the summer IYLC 2005. Naeem is a student of Law and International Relations at the Coventry University in the UK. He is currently studying his final year as an exchange student at the University of Hague in the Netherlands. This summer Naeem worked as
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Penelope Frearson
Penelope Frearson (USA) Penny was a participant at the 6th IYLC and has been a facilitator at the 7th, 8th and 10th IYLCs… and loved every minute of them! She has completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Diploma of Modern Languages (Indonesian), at the University of Melbourne, and is currently studying for a Bachelor of Laws majoring in International Trade Law at the Australian Nation
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Grace Keesing
Grace Keesing (Australia) Grace Keesing was born in Sydney, Australia. She is currently attending the Australian National University in Canberra as the recipient of one of only eight Australia wide national undergraduate scholarships. She has completed two years of a combined Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce degree,and deferred her studies in 2007 in order to travel the world. As part o
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Matt Gillespie
Matt Gillespie (UK) Matt holds a degree in English and Politics from Queen’s University, Belfast. A graduate of the 12th IYLC and facilitator at the 14th, 15th and 16th IYLC, Matt has worked as a policy intern for the US House of Representatives Committee on Small Business in Washington DC, working on US-China economic relations and helped prepare the 7th Annual US-China Inter-Parliamentar
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Adil Bouzaffour
Adil Bouzaffour (Morocco) Born in Morocco, Adil holds an MBA in Organizational Leadership Management from Johnson and Wales University (US), a Projects Management certification from Bryant University (US), and a Bachelor's of Science in Software Engineering from Al Akhawayn University (Morocco). He is currently a business consultant at Metlife Insurance, and enjoys working for an interna
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Tharsiga Gnanasekaran
Tharsiga Gnanasekaran Australia Network Contributor, Alumni Winter 2008 Brief Description I am a final year Medical Student at Monash University. I have always been interested in Global Health and attended the IYLC as I thought it would be a good opportunity to learn more about opportunities available particularly in the European Union and the United Nations. I hope to specialise in Medicine
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David Michael Laird
David Michael Laird (Jamaica) During the week of the IYLA "the Founder's Conference" I was privileged to learn more about Africa and the challenges that face the wealthy continent. Even though I am not an African, after the conference I began considering myself as an African. Jamaica might be a very far fetch nation in terms of distance when it comes to Africa, but we are from Afri
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Help lay the Groundwork for new Projects! Become a Project Initiator
Help to get the IYLC to your university, country or region. Work to build up contacts with potential university partners, potential funders and encourage alumni from the region to assist. The Project Initiator is a volunteer position designed to build momentum for a new IYLC. Once there is enough momentum to establish a conference this position will evolve into a paid position of Project Manager and eventually, once dates are decided and we start to receive applications, to the position of Conference Director. CCI and the IYLN are looking to initiate projects, such as an IYLC African series, IYLC South as well as South East Asia, IYLC Latin America, and IYLC Pacific Rim. We also look to expand focus on regional topics as well as initiating new conferences based on topics such as climate change, and global finance/economy. We are also more than ready to explore new proposals from you!