page_title: Ivy Council
section_title: Ivy Leadership Summit
hierarchical_section_title: Ivy Council / Ivy Leadership Summit
context_page_description: The Ivy Council is a 5013 federal tax-exempt organization of student government leaders, student organization leaders, and students at large from the colleges and universities of the Ivy League. The Ivy Council was established in 1993 by members of the Ivy League student governments in order to facilitate effective communication between the student governments of their respective institutions and to provide a unified voice for the Ivy League student governments. In its inaugural year, Ivy Council was led by future U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, who served as its first president. Since then, the Ivy Council has expanded the scope of its activity both nationally and internationally with programs such as the Ivy Leadership Summit and student-exchange opportunities in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
context_section_description: 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:
  2019 ILS XIX -“Towards a Sustainable Tomorrow”- at University of Pennsylvania
  2017 ILS XVIII -“Innovative Leadership”- at Princeton University
  2016 ILS XVII - "Impetus: Driving Forward Visions for Positive Global Change" - at Yale University
  2015 ILS XVI - at Harvard University
  2014 ILS XV - "Duties of Higher Education" at Cornell University
  2013 ILS XIV - "The Digital Future" - at Brown University
  2012 ILS XIII -“Catalysts for Change”- at Dartmouth College
  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
caption: Theodore Roosevelt IV gives a presentation at ILS
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