Membership

Young Professionals in Foreign Policy’s membership is comprised of over 3,000 young professionals around the world. Our members are drawn from an impressive variety of foreign policy institutions and government agencies, non-profits and corporations, and policy-related graduate programs and law schools. We strive to build strong relationships as professional colleagues and friends. YPFP prides itself on our professional, ideological, cultural, and political diversity, and yet YPFP members are all united by two traits: a passion for international affairs and a desire to shape foreign policy.
 
To join, create an account and Apply for Membership.

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After becoming an affiliate member upgrade to general member for $35 per year.  You will receive discounts to magazines like the Economist and special invitations to general member only events.  Read up on full the full benefits of becoming a general member.
 
Members also gain access to our Member Directory.
 
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YPFP members are employed in various sectors, including (but not limited to) the following organizations:
 
Government
Central Intelligence Agency
Council of Economic Advisors
Defense Intelligence Agency
Federal Reserve Board
U.S. Agency for International Development
U.S. Army
U.S. Commission on Religious Freedom
U.S. Congressional Budget Office
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Department of Commerce
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Department of Labor
U.S. Department of State
U.S. Department of Transportation
U.S. Department of the Treasury
U.S. Government Accountability Office
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Marine Corps
U.S. Senate
U.S. Trade and Development Agency
Transportation Security Administration
The White House
 
Think Tanks
American Enterprise Institute
Arms Control Association
The Aspen Institute
Atlantic Council of the United States
The Brookings Institution
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Center for American Progress
Center for Arms Control
Center for Middle East Peace & Economic Cooperation
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Center for the Study of the Presidency
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Council on Foreign Relations
German Marshall Fund of the United States
Henry L. Stimson Center
The Heritage Foundation
Hudson Institute
Institute for Defense Analysis
Institute for National Strategic Studies
International Center for Research on Women
International Institute for Strategic Studies
Inter-American Dialogue
Latin America Working Group
The National Bureau of Asian Research
The National Institute for Public Policy
The Nixon Center
New America Foundation
Public International Law & Policy Group
Progressive Policy Institute
RAND Corporation
U.S. Institute of Peace
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
 
Graduate Schools
American University
Cambridge University
The George Washington University
Georgetown University
Kings College, London
London School of Economics
New York University
Oxford University
School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University 
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
 
Media
The American Interest
The American Prospect
Asahi Shimbun
BBC
CNN
Foreign Policy Magazine
Voice of America
 
Non-Governmental Organizations
Citizens for Global Solutions
Clinton Global Initiative
Freedom House
Genocide Intervention Network
Global Fund for Children
International Committee of the Red Cross
International Republican Institute
National Democratic Institute
National Endowment for Democracy
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Save Darfur Coalition
Smithsonian Institution
World Resources Institute
 
Private Sector
Bearing Point, Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton
CENTRA Technology, Inc.
Corporate Executive Board
Covington & Burling, LLP
Crowell& Moring
DFI International
Gallup Organization
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP
Global Group
IBM
J. P. Morgan
Kelley, Drye & Warren, LLP
Ketchum
Kissinger McLarty Associates
Latham & Watkins, LLP
Lockheed Martin
Management Systems International
Morgan Stanley
O'Melveny & Myers, LLP
Patton Boggs, LLP
Science Applications International Corporation
The Scowcroft Group
Steptoe & Johnson, Inc.
Venable, LLP
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP
 
Foreign & International Organizations
Embassy of Afghanistan
Embassy of Egypt
Embassy of Israel
Embassy of Japan
Embassy of Jordan
Embassy of Korea
Embassy of Pakistan
Embassy of Norway
Embassy of Saudi Arabia
Embassy of the United Kingdom
European Commission
Inter-American Development Bank
International Crisis Group
International Monetary Fund
The World Bank