About Us
The International Young Professionals Foundation (IYPF) is a not-for-profit organisation focused on:
- Encouraging Young Professionals to actively help make a difference
- Highlighting the powerful position and influence Young Professionals have both inside corporations and through government to achieve change
The IYPF connects members from over 130 different countries.
While we encourage any kind of engagement, IYPF focuses it's energies on the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG's). The MDG's represent the greatest achievement humanity could reach to create the largest improvement to the human condition to 2015.
Newsletter
The International Young Professionals Summit(IYPS) is an event IYPF hosts every two to three years to bring together Young Professionals from across the world to stimulate conversations and information sharing that informs and inspires them to take action on important local and global issues.
The most recent IYPS was help in 2008 in the UK. It was attended by delegates from over 25 different countries, and keynoted by Jeffrey Sachs.
IYPS 2008 - Key Documents
- Jeffrey Sachs Keynote
- Delegate Pledges
- Summit Comminique
- Final Program
Summit closes
After almost a year of preparation, the 3rd International Young Professionals Summit has finally come to a close. If has been a fantastic effort by everyone involved.
Firstly we'd like to thank all the delegates who were able to make it to the event. Delegates represented over 25 different countries from around the world, one third of them from Africa. We would also like to thank our sponsors and partners, specifically Coca-Cola Great Britain who assisted in supporting the attendance of our many African delegates.
We will soon provide information to connect into our recorded virtual summit (including Jeffrey Sachs keynote), and summit outcomes. Watch out for those updates.
New Sponsorship
We would like to welcome on board another sponsor of the International Young Professionals Summit!
Coca-Cola Great Britain has kindly entered into an agreement with IYPF to assist delegates from developing nation attend IYPS. We are extremely grateful for the support, and will allow the event to have a good mix of young professionals from both developed and developing countries.
Join IYPF
Become a member of IYPF today and join other Young Professions from over 130 countries across the globe.
