Fifteen University undergraduates joined 160 other Ivy League students this weekend to study the effects of globalization on students at the Ivy Council's fourth annual Ivy Leadership Summit at Columbia University.
The conference brought together real-world leaders and students to discuss some of the issues which will continue to face today's generation as it enters the workforce.
The summit's theme was "Leading in the Age of Technology," and discussions focused on the domestic and international implications of economic and political policies.
Eight prominent leaders in education, government and business spoke at this year's conference.
Some of the more notable panelists included Steve Forbes '70, chief executive of Forbes Magazine and former University trustee, Nesreen Berwari, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council, Alan Brinkely, Columbia University's provost, and Jeffery Sachs, world-renowned author and expert on the economies of developing countries.
The sustainable development panel, led by Forbes and Sachs, was one of the summit's most memorable events, said Jay Saxon '05 — head University delegate to the conference — because they argued for their different approaches to developing third world nations.
Brian Lewandowski '05 said this difference of views made the panel particularly enjoyable.
"Usually panelists are in agreement, but in this one the two men were diametrically opposed," Lewandoski said. "We got both sides of the topic, which made it interesting."
A number of the conference's participants said the best part of the weekend was the interaction with distinguished speakers.
Saxon said that there was "constant back and forth dialogue" and that the speakers even stayed after to answer additional student questions.
Some undergraduates said the best part of the experience was meeting students from other colleges and learning about the issues that affect their schools.
The conference was broken up into panel discussions, followed by student task-forces to develop specific initiatives as a group. Each panel included 15 minute introduction speeches and then an hour long question and answer session.
This format fostered a large amount of interaction between speakers and conference participants.
The international politics panels were titled "Media & Global Society" and "Terrorism & the New Security Threat," and the global economics panels were "Sustainable Development" and "The Role of the International Business."
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