About YPFP

Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP) fosters the next generation of foreign policy leaders by providing young professionals the knowledge, skills, exposure, and relationships to tackle critical global challenges over the course of their careers.

YPFP is an expanding, dynamic, and enduring global community with the distinct worldview of the millennial generation, unique access to today and tomorrow’s foreign policy leaders, proven capacity to expand the knowledge and skills of our members, and an unwavering commitment to our mission.

Founded in 2004 and run by a team of more than 100 dedicated volunteers, YPFP has grown from a start up to a global community of 10,000 young professionals in more than 60 countries with branches in Washington, New York, London, and Brussels.
 
YPFP highlights from 2011:  

• YPFP and the Diplomatic Courier announced the "Top 99 Under 33 Foreign Policy Leaders," a special feature that captures the extraordinary and diverse impact that 99 Millennials under the age of 33 have on international affairs. Through individual profiles, the "99 Under 33" offered insight into the creativity, determination, and passion of the young people who are already solving the world's critical global challenges.
• Throughout the year, YPFP hosted events featuring Undersecretary of Defense Michele Flournoy, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, former Senator Chuck Hagel, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, and former Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, Admiral Thad Allen. In London, distinguished speakers included International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell and Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt. 
• To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks, YPFP convened a panel of rising foreign policy leaders for a dynamic public conversation exploring the impact of 9/11 on the Millennial generation.
• YPFP launched its first international service project to Leogane, Haiti in partnership with disaster relief organization All Hands Volunteers. Together, the group painted schools, removed rubble from the devastating 2010 Haiti Earthquake, sent volunteers to assist in an orphanage, and constructed bio-sand water filters. Team member Whitney Grespin published her observations in the Journal of International Peace Operations, and Eva Pereira had her reflections on the experience featured in Forbes.
• In May 2011, YPFP's leadership traveled to Brussels to deliver a presentation on YPFP's worldview - "How Millennials are Remaking Foreign Policy" - to the U.S. Mission in the European Union as part of a transatlantic partnership initiative
• YPFP founder Joshua Marcuse was chosen as one of Brazen Careerist's 20 Young Professionals to Watch in 2012.