EF Events
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*EF events are open to members of the Eisenhower Fellowships family unless otherwise indicated as open for wider invitation.
2010 Events
October 14, 2010
Third Annual Eisenhower Day of Fellowship
Location: Worldwide
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The first annual Eisenhower Day of Fellowship was a day to commemorate the vision of Dwight Eisenhower and the principles of Eisenhower Fellowships. It was met with great enthusiasm and the participation of hundreds of Fellows in close to two dozen events. The second annual EF Day was another mounting success, as Fellows around the world again gathered to renew their commitment to Eisenhower Fellowships. We are currently requesting that alumni Fellows update us on their plans for 2010. We will soon publicize these activities for this third year of global celebrations!
Some current plans for EF Day 2010 include:
Fellows in Brazil are planning a seminar on "Role of Science & Culture in the Social and Environmental Development", followed by their annual Brazil EF Alumni Fellows general assembly at Inhotim Institute in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.
In Hungary, Obuda University will host "Changes and Relationships: Eisenhower Day of Fellowship in Budapest" on the 6th of October. The planned program will include speeches by the rector of the university, Eisenhower Fellows, a representative from the US Embassy to Budapest and Huba Brückner, Director of Hungarian-American Fulbright Commission. Zsófia Cseh, MNP 2009, will also give a summary of her fellowship, as well as other news.
Under the leadership of Dr. Jeffrey Koo, the Eisenhower Fellows Association in the Republic of China (Taiwan) (EFA) is sponsoring 40 students on a three-week long “2010 Cross–Strait Youth Leadership Camp”, August 8 through 27 in Taiwan. The curricula include Economy; Technology; Culture and Art.
November 18—19, 2010
Leadership and Innovation Conference
Location: Philadelphia, PA
The conference will highlight successful partnerships developed through the fellowships, discuss a mentoring program with Eisenhower Fellows for younger professionals, and feature a roundatable discussion with Christine Todd Whitman, former head of the US Environmental Protection Agency. The conference will also conclude the 2010 Women's Leadership Program (WLP).
Join us in Philadelphia to...
- Discuss the latest trends and best practices in leadership in the U.S. and abroad
- Share your ideas for innovation in the face of leadership challenges
- Get energized about making changes in your organization
- Attend networking sessions with Eisenhower Fellows from around the world
- Learn from leaders in the Eisenhower network including executives from Microsoft Corporation, ExxonMobil Foundation, Philadelphia Museum of Art, ProArte (Russia), Harvard University, Digital Hub (Ireland), Indus Hospital (Pakistan) and many others!
Register for the conference at eisenhowerfellowshipsconference.blogspot.com!
Past Events: 2010
May 4 - 7, 2010
Building Community Across Difference: Developing Leadership for the Next Generation
Locations: Dublin, Ireland and Belfast, Northern Ireland
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF MEETING REPORT
Introduction
Building community is slow, unglamorous, painstaking, and sometimes dangerous
work. Without meaningful community, little positive gets done. Yet built
authentically, community unleashes human potential and leverages the assets of
organizations to address the great issues of the day.
Effective community leaders- whether they serve in the public or private sector must
understand the increasingly complicated interplay and societal implications
of building bridges in communities divided by cultural identities and histories,
frequently accompanied by violence. While there are urgent needs for leaders to
develop skills that hone their capacity to think in pragmatic ways to address
difference, there are practitioners who have wide experience in the field of conflict
resolution from whom they can learn. Without prior exposure to these disciplines,
leaders, especially emerging leaders, are often left to invent their own solutions
and grapple with everyday community challenges on their own.
In response to this need, alumni and administrative staff of the Kellogg Fellows
Leadership Alliance collaborated with their counterparts from the Eisenhower and
Loeb Fellowships to sponsor a first of its kind international forum on the island of
Ireland May 4-7-2010. Despite travel delays due to volcanic ash, 11 Kellogg
Fellows, 11 Eisenhower Fellows, 3 Loeb Fellows, and 1 Livingston Fellow were in
attendance for the meeting, which began in Dublin and then moved to Belfast. Six
young emerging community leaders from the Island of Ireland identified by the
Irish Eisenhower Fellows also attended. A final program agenda and biographical
sketch of the forum attendees accompany this Executive Summary.
Objectives of the Meeting
• Develop an international peer network across Fellowship programs that
links practicing community leaders to others who are working to build
community across difference and strengthen civil society
• Develop a unique Global Initiative designed to:
1. Build on best practice and the experiences of communities of
difference across the world
2. Enable a global audience to experience, learn and contribute to our
understanding of creating sustainable communities across difference
3. Involve community leaders, academics, and researchers and the
people of the communities in dialogue
4. Make use of writers, artists, poets, and their arts to promote
understanding of cultural differences
5. Understand and imagine how the design of the built environment
can shape new professional and cultural partnership, and create
communities that are vibrant in multiple dimension
6. Use digital media and traditional structure to develop a new model
of delivery and learning on community building
7. Access the people and ideas who have made a difference and
created a way of understanding and doing that can be shared
8. Capture experience and best practices and disseminate virtual
resources of new models of approach to community building
Outcomes and Recommendations
1. The participants enthusiastically affirmed the sustained value of the three
Fellowships working together again collaboratively on the forum topic.
Future collaborative efforts must be purposeful, tangible, and realistic, with
clear outcomes, and spearheaded by a small working group with
representatives from all three Fellowships.
2. Collaborative methods should include invitation to each other’s meetings
and programming, and perhaps start with cross–fellowship Webinars
featuring prominent leaders from each Fellowship.
3. A follow-up collaborative meeting of this group in the Middle East is
proposed for 2011.
4. A virtual Mentoring Institute should be created to allow young emerging
leaders access to experienced Fellows from all three Fellowship programs.
Such a virtual Institute creates a network outside of each participant’s own
community, and can be invaluable in facilitating contacts, consultants, and
experts in community building.
5. All slide presentations, pictures, videos, and a list of the last day’s
Transferable Concepts of the meeting should be posted on each
Fellowship’s web site for review and use by attendees.
Next Steps
The Executive Directors of KFLA and the Eisenhower Fellowship will debrief the
meeting and initiate a small working group to carry the recommendations
forward.
Click here to see a list of the presenters and participants.
Click here to read remarks by 1980 Fellow from the Republic of Ireland, Padraic White.
Click here to view the photo gallery.
Click here to watch some interviews with participants.
Past Events: 2009
October 14, 2009
Second Annual Eisenhower Day of Fellowship
Location: Worldwide
In April 2008, EF President John Wolf called for October 14 to be the first annual Eisenhower Day of Fellowship, a day to commemorate the vision of Dwight Eisenhower. The second annual EF Day was another rousing success, as Fellows around the world gathered to reaffirm their commitment to Eisenhower Fellowships.
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September 30-October 2, 2009
Energy: The Challenges for Environment and Security
Location: Paris, France
Over 250 Eisenhower Fellows, spouses, Trustees, sponsors and special guests came together in Paris from September 30 though October 2 to honor the organization and initiate the newest “class” of Fellows while debating global issues of energy and climate change.
A European Operating Committee of alumni Fellows from France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Spain, the U.K., and EC led by French Fellows Claude Henrion, ’68, and Frederic Mauro, ’01, organized the 2½-day program and stocked it with stimulating speakers and picture-perfect venues that captured the beauty for which Paris is renowned. Discussions focused on energy security from both the suppliers’ and consumers’ points of view; looked at energy transportation issues; and examined the critical questions surrounding the climate change debate, including the importance of moving forward to reduce carbon emissions.
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Past Events: 2008
December 5, 2008
ACE Speaker Series: Developing Executive Talent
Location: Beijing, China
Eisenhower Fellowships and the Chinese Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE) co-hosted this event, which featured a discussion with Eisenhower Fellows, Harvey Chang, ’01, China (Taiwan), president and CEO of Taiwan Mobile; and Chen Poujian, ’06, China, chairman and CEO of Tianan Insurance, on ways to attract, develop, and retain talented leaders in Chinese and multinational companies today. EF President John Wolf and Jiang Bo, ’99, China, secretary general of CEAIE, provided dinner remarks. The event highlight was a keynote address by Kai Fu Lee, CEO of Google China, who captivated the attendees with his speech on leadership.
November 14, 2008
A Latin American Women's Leadership Forum
Location: New York City, USA
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Approximately 70 guests, including 22 Eisenhower Fellows, participated in the Latin American Women’s Leadership Forum in New York City on November 14th, which also marked the birthday of Mamie Dowd Eisenhower, Ike’s wife. The event also marked the launch of the Latin American Women's Network. Through a series of special keynote remarks, breakout sessions, and informal networking opportunities, forum participants came together to discuss how to build stronger networks for change and increase awareness of women's issues. Highlights included remarks from Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, ‘97, USA; Ines Alberdi, '98, Spain, executive director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women; EF Trustee Christie Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jersey and founder of the Whitman Strategy Group; Ana Milena Muñoz de Gaviria, founder of COLFUTURO and former first lady of Colombia; and several other outstanding women leaders.
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October 30, 2008
ACE Speaker Series: Youth - New Scenarios to Cope With Violence, Technology, Education and the New Codes
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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USA Fellows Tony Habit, '00, and Andrea Cabral, '07, were guest speakers at the fifth annual Jornadas Conference, organized by ICANA and the Eisenhower Fellows of Argentina, and sponsored by the ACE INA Foundation. Discussing topics of youth, Habit and Cabral were joined by Argentina Fellows Enrique Pinedo, '57; Julio Alvarez, '60; Alberto Mondet, '65; Alberto Gabrielli, '69; Ignacio Braun Cantilo, '79; Marita Carballo, '88; Felipe Noguera, '88; Marta Pascual, ‘88; Monica Gonzalez de Bordon, '97; Silvia Bacher, '01; and Carlos Regazzoni, '04, in addition to nearly 150 other participants. The Argentine American Seminar was created several years ago as a space to debate ideas and exchange knowledge about different subjects in order to foster a better understanding among the people of Argentina, the United States, and other countries. U.S. Ambassador Anthony Wayne opened the seminar thanking ICANA and EF for establishing this important space for dialogue.
October 16-18, 2008
Asia: Connect for a Better World
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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This important regional conference brought together 35 Eisenhower Fellows from 22 countries, and other high-level participants from around South East Asia, for stimulating discussions around current economic issues such as the inter-connected regional and global economy, human capital migration, emerging Asian nations, and sustainable development. Conference speakers included the Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak; Indonesian Minister of Trade and Eisenhower Fellow Mari Pangestu; Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin; President of the Malaysian Eisenhower Fellowships Association Tan Sri Dato Mohmd Ramli Kushairi; Boeing Southeast Asia CEO Ralph “Skip” Boyce; and Hong Kong businessman Ronnie Chan. To mark the inaugural Eisenhower Day of Fellowship, a dinner was held at the Putrajaya Club and a slide show of the EF Day of Fellowship celebrations around the world was shown. Malaysia’s first Eisenhower Fellow, Tan Sri Dr Abdul Majid Ismail, better known as Coco Majid, spoke of his Fellowship experience in 1963.
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October 14, 2008
First Annual Eisenhower Day of Fellowship
Location: Worldwide
In April 2008, EF President John Wolf called for October 14 to be the first annual Eisenhower Day of Fellowship, a day to commemorate the vision of Dwight Eisenhower. The enthusiastic response resulted in hundreds of Fellows from five continents celebrating the occasion on or around October 14.
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Click here to see the event summary page
June 5-8, 2008
Leadership for Development and Sustainable Growth: Facing the Challenges in Latin America
Location: Ouro Preto, Brazil
More than 110 attendees, including 50 Fellows, gathered in the historic colonial town of Ouro Preto for three days to debate the future development of Latin America. Conference participants shared experiences and presented best practices in the areas of health, entrepreneurship, the environment, nonprofit management and sustainable development. Conference speakers included the former president of Embraer, Ozires Silva; Peruvian journalist Rosa Maria Palácios, ’01; the president of Women’s World Banking, Mary Ellen Iskenderian; a representative of the Argentine National Congress, Estebán Bullrich, ‘07; the Mayor of Ouro Preto, Angelo Oswaldo; and the president of Hemominas Foundation, Anna Bárbara Proietti, '00, among others. The conference also kicked off Eisenhower Fellowships' 2008 Latin America Regional Program, which brought 21 emerging leaders from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay to the United States in September 2008.
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Past Events: 2007
November 15, 2007
Strengthening Global Cities: An Urban Leadership Forum
Location: City College of New York, New York City, USA
Fifty Eisenhower Fellows from 17 different countries joined more than 100 other participants at the Powell Center for Policy Studies to share ideas and experiences on urban leadership. Led by EF Chairman Gen. Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.), the day featured keynote addresses by Deputy Mayor of New York Daniel Doctoroff, Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons, and General Powell himself. Powell also led a highly interactive town-hall style meeting on urban lessons for the future with CIP Fellows Alicia Guajardo (Mexico), Arbind Singh (India), and Don Hobart (USA), and several CCNY Scholars.
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June 8-10, 2007
21st Century Cities
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Nearly 140 participants experienced Dublin as a leading global city as the Irish Eisenhower Fellows played host to a regional conference on “21st Century Cities.” Key guests and speakers included Bertie Ahern Taoisearch, the Irish Prime Minister; Alfonso Vegara, ’87, Spain, EF Trustee and Fundacion Metropoli president; and Martin Curley, director of IT innovation at Intel. Attendees also enjoyed visits to Intel’s Innovation Center, the Guinness Storehouse, and the Royal Hospital at Kilmainham. The conference also served as an inaugural event for 26 Fellows from 13 countries around the globe who subsequently participated in the fall 2007 program on Challenges of Urbanization, EF’s first theme-based or Common Interest Program.
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Other Photo Galleries:
2006 Philadelphia Conference
2006 Istanbul
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