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The International Leadership Forum is a non-partisan, Internet-based think tank composed entirely of top leaders who meet annually in La Jolla, California, and in policy forums online throughout the year, to discuss the major issues facing our global society and to communicate the ideas and wisdom generated in these deliberations to policymakers and to the general public. The ILF evolved from the Institute's pioneering work in the creation of online communities beginning with the School of Management and Strategic Studies. The ILF currently maintains two online publications: the ILF Digest which presents current and archived conferences of the ILF Fellows as well as commentaries and interviews; and the ILF Post, a blog that features topical commentaries by a core group of Fellows of the International Leadership Forum—former US Ambassador to NATO Harlan Cleveland, author/filmmaker Michael Crichton, anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, psychoanalyst Douglass Carmichael, Biospherian Jane Poynter, survey researcher Daniel Yankelovich, former president of Planned Parenthood Gloria Feldt, actress and former Chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts Jane Alexander, Yale economist and political scientist Charles Lindblom, author Ralph Keyes, former FCC commissioner Nicholas Johnson, and other ILF Fellows and guest experts. Top
leaders have always been too busy to give the time for extended
This unprecedented approach to the formation of a think tank by restricting it to top leaders has two advantages over other policy formation groups: First, the extraordinary pressures and responsibilities associated with those at the very top of their organizations or fields has in certain cases resulted in their developing extraordinary perspective and wisdom that sometimes surpasses that of specialists. Second, by combining their already considerable power, connections and influence, the policy analyses they produce can be delivered with special clout. For more comprehensive information on the ILF, please Click here for an audio/visual presentation. |
residential gatherings designed to create intensive and prolonged
deliberation on any matters, let alone major social issues.
For that reason they have never before been mobilized to deal
with the great contemporary problems that could undoubtedly
benefit from their attention. The Internet now makes it possible
for these leaders to engage in such deliberations at their convenience
and in brief segments of time. Such is the power of the Internet
and, consequently, the International Leadership Forum.