International Visitor Leadership Program

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The International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) is a professional exchange program funded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The mission of IVLP is to offer current and emerging international leaders the opportunity to experience the richness and diversity of American political, economic, social and cultural life through carefully designed exchanges that reflect participants’ professional interests and the public diplomacy objectives of the United States government.[ peacock prose ]

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The exchange brings up to 5,000 professional emerging leaders from around the world to the United States each year for programs of up to three weeks. The program is nomination only by staff at U.S. Embassies. [1]

History

In 1940, Nelson Rockefeller was named the Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Affairs for the American Republics. He initiated the exchange of persons program with Latin America, inviting 130 Latin American journalists to the United States and recognized as the first exchange under what would become the IVLP. In 1948 representative Karl E. Mundt and Senator H. Alexander Smith marshaled the Informational and Educational Exchange Act, also known as the Smith-Mundt Act which was passed by the 80th United States Congress and approved by President Harry S. Truman. During a time when Americans grew increasingly concerned about Soviet propaganda, the purpose of the Smith-Mundt was "to promote a better understanding of the United States in other countries, and to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries" though educational and cultural exchanges. From this legislation birthed the Foreign Leaders Program, which was eventually consolidated into the International Visitor Program (IVP) in 1952. In 2004, the IVP was renamed the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). [2] [3]

Goals

The purpose of the IVLP is to:

  1. cultivate lasting relationships between current and emerging professionals around the world and their American counterparts
  2. provides opportunities for foreign opinion makers to gain firsthand knowledge about U.S. society, culture and politics [4]

Notable alumni

The following tables list the 338 current and former chiefs of state and heads of government who have participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program.

East Asia and Pacific

CountryNameHighest PositionYear Participated
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Julia Gillard Prime Minister2006
Quentin Bryce Governor General1978
Paul Keating Prime Minister1977
William Hayden Governor General1970
Malcolm Fraser Prime Minister1964
Gough Whitlam Prime Minister1964
Flag of the Cook Islands.svg Cook Islands Terepai Maoate Prime Minister1987
Flag of the Federated States of Micronesia.svg Federated States of Micronesia Tosiwo Nakayama President1961
Flag of Fiji.svg Fiji Kamisese Mara Acting President1964
Penaia Ganilau President1963
George Cakobau Governor General1964
Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia Megawati Sukarnoputri President1989
Abdurrahman Wahid President1979
Flag of Japan.svg Japan Naoto Kan Prime Minister1981, 1980
Yukio Hatoyama Prime Minister1988
Morihiro Hosokawa Prime Minister1980
Toshiki Kaifu Prime Minister2000, 1962
Flag of Malaysia.svg Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad Prime Minister1973
Abdul Razak Hussein Prime Minister1963, 1953
Flag of Mongolia.svg Mongolia Nambaryn Enkhbayar President1994
Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand Helen Clark Prime Minister1998
Jenny Shipley Prime Minister1989
David Lange Prime Minister1983
Norman Kirk Prime Minister1971, 1962
Rob Muldoon Prime Minister1965
Wallace E. Rowling Prime Minister1967
Jack Marshall Prime Minister1958
Flag of Palau.svg Palau Lazarus Salii President1968
Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg Papua New Guinea Ignatius Kilage Governor-General1976
Michael Somare Prime Minister1971
Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines Gloria Macapagal Arroyo President1964
Sara Duterte Vice President2020
Flag of Samoa.svg Samoa Vaai Kolone Prime Minister1981
Flag of Singapore.svg Singapore Wee Kim Wee President1964
Devan Nair President1979
Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea Kim Dae-jung President1965
Kim Yong-sam President1964
Han Seung-soo Prime Minister1977
Hyun Seung-jong Acting Prime Minister1971
Lee Yung-duk Prime Minister1966
Kim Sang-hyup Prime Minister1970, 1960
Nam Duck-woo Prime Minister1975
Chung Il-kwon Prime Minister1971
Lee Han-key Prime Minister1972
Choi Doo-sun Prime Minister1950
Flag of the Republic of China.svg Taiwan Ma Ying-jeou President2003, 1971
Chen Shui-bian President1990
Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand Chuan Leekpai Prime Minister1971
Flag of Tonga.svg Tonga Taufa'ahau Tupou IV King1964
Fatafehi Tu'ipelehake Prime Minister1968
Flag of Vanuatu.svg Vanuatu Walter Lini Prime Minister1976

Europe

Country/RegionNameHighest PositionYear Participated
Flag of Albania.svg Albania Bashkim Fino Prime Minister1996, 1995
Flag of Austria.svg Austria Heinz Fischer President1964
Alfred Gusenbauer Chancellor1987
Wolfgang Schüssel Chancellor1984, 1971
Franz Vranitzky Chancellor1975
Bruno Kreisky Chancellor1958
Fred Sinowatz Chancellor1965
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium Yves Leterme Prime Minister1983
Guy Verhofstadt Prime Minister1983
Wilfried Martens Prime Minister1971
Leo Tindemans Prime Minister1967
Mark Eyskens Prime Minister1984
Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Bosnia and Herzegovina Mladen Ivanić Member of Presidency
Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria Sergei Stanishev Prime Minister2004
Zhan Videnov Prime Minister1992
Philip Dimitrov Prime Minister1990
Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia Zoran Milanović Prime Minister1996
Ivo Josipović President2002
Ivica Racan Prime Minister1998
Zlatko Tomčić President1998
Flag of Cyprus.svg Cyprus Tassos Papadopoulos President1968
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic Petr Nečas Prime Minister1999, 1994
Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark Lars Løkke Rasmussen Prime Minister1989
Anders Fogh Rasmussen Prime Minister1982
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen Prime Minister1985
Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia Juhan Parts Prime Minister2005, 1992
Flag of Finland.svg Finland Sauli Niinistö President1992
Tarja Halonen President1983
Jyrki Katainen Prime Minister2003
Matti Vanhanen Prime Minister1993
Paavo Lipponen Prime Minister1974
Esko Aho Prime Minister1979
Harri Holkeri Prime Minister1970
Anneli Tuulikki Jaatteenmaki Prime Minister1995
Flag of France.svg France Nicolas Sarkozy President1985
François Fillon Prime Minister1984
Lionel Jospin Prime Minister1977
Alain Juppé Prime Minister1978
Raymond Barre Prime Minister1965
Pierre Bérégovoy Prime Minister1977
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing President1956
Jacques Chaban-Delmas Prime Minister1961
Michel Debré Prime Minister1956
Flag of Georgia.svg Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili President1999
Zurab Noghaideli Prime Minister1997
Zurab Zhvania Prime Minister1997
Flag of Germany.svg Germany Joachim Gauck President1993
Christian Wulff President2000
Gerhard Schröder Chancellor1981
Richard von Weizsäcker President1978
Walter Scheel President1951
Karl Carstens President1950
Kurt Georg Kiesinger Chancellor1954
Willy Brandt Chancellor1954
Helmut Schmidt Chancellor1956
Flag of Greece.svg Greece Konstandinos Karamanlis Prime Minister1995
Constantine Mitsotakis Prime Minister1959
Constantine Karamanlis President1951
Constantine Tsatsos President1952
George Rallis Prime Minister1958, 1953
Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary Gyula Horn Prime Minister1981
József Antall Prime Minister1989
Flag of Iceland.svg Iceland Geir Haarde Prime Minister1985
David Oddsson Prime Minister1983
Thorsteinn Palsson Prime Minister1984
Kristjan Eldjarn President1957
Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland Enda Kenny Prime Minister1989
Mary Robinson President1976
John Bruton Prime Minister1980
Flag of Italy.svg Italy Oscar Luigi Scalfaro President1960
Francesco Cossiga President1966
Giuseppe Saragat President1963
Mario Monti Prime Minister1981
Romano Prodi Prime Minister1979
Giovanni Goria Prime Minister1981
Giovanni Spadolini Prime Minister1952
Arnaldo Forlani Prime Minister1960
Flag of Kosovo.svg Kosovo Fatmir Sejdiu President2003
Bajram Kosumi Prime Minister2001
Bajram Rexhepi Prime Minister2000
Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė President1994
Gediminas Kirkilas President2002, 1993
Arturas Paulauskas President1992
Flag of Luxembourg.svg Luxembourg Jacques Santer Prime Minister1973
Flag of North Macedonia.svg Macedonia Nikola Gruevski Prime Minister2000
Boris Trajkovski President1996
Ljubco Georgievski Prime Minister1996
Flag of Malta.svg Malta Joseph Muscat Prime Minister1984
Edward Fenech Adami President1974, 1975
Guido De Marco President1973
Lawrence Gonzi Prime Minister1990
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici President1971
Dominic Mintoff Prime Minister1965
Flag of Moldova.svg Moldova Nicolae Timofti President2005
Petru Lucinschi President1995
Flag of Montenegro.svg Montenegro Igor Lukšić Prime Minister1999
Flag of the Netherlands.svg The Netherlands Jan Peter Balkenende Prime Minister1985
Willem Kok Prime Minister1978
Joop den Uyl Prime Minister1953, 1979
Flag of Norway.svg Norway Erna Solberg Prime Minister1996
Jens Stoltenberg Prime Minister1988
Thorbjorn Jagland Prime Minister1982
Kjell Magne Bondevik Prime Minister1971
Jan P. Syse Prime Minister1978
Kare Willoch Prime Minister1979
Flag of Poland.svg Poland Beata Szydło Prime Minister2004
Bronislaw Komorowski President2006
Donald Tusk Prime Minister1995
Hanna Suchocka Prime Minister1988
Mieczysław Rakowski Prime Minister1978
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz Prime Minister2000
Aleksander Kwasniewski President1994
Flag of Portugal (official).svg Portugal Aníbal Cavaco Silva President1978
Jorge Sampaio President1965
Mario Alberto Soares President1976
António Guterres Prime Minister1978
Francisco Pinto Balsemao Prime Minister1965
Flag of Romania.svg Romania Victor Ciorbea Prime Minister1995
Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia Borut Pahor Prime Minister1991
Janez Drnovšek President1988
Flag of Spain.svg Spain Eduardo Madina Deputy
Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Fredrik Reinfeldt Prime Minister2002
Carl Bildt Prime Minister1973
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland Moritz Leuenberger President1993
Andri Silberschmidt National Councilor2019
Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey Abdullah Gul President1995
Suleyman Demirel President1957
Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine Leonid Kuchma President1994
Leonid Kravchuk President
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Gordon Brown Prime Minister1992, 1984
Tony Blair Prime Minister1992, 1986
Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister1967
Edward Heath Prime Minister1953
Humza Yousaf First Minister of Scotland2008

North Africa, Near East, South Asia and Central Asia

CountryNameHighest PositionYear Participated
Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan Hamid Karzai President1987
Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh Fakhruddin Ahmed Chief Advisor 1977
Flag of Bhutan.svg Bhutan Jigme Thinley Prime Minister1987
Khandu Wangchuk Prime Minister1993
Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt Anwar Sadat President1968
Ahmed Nazif Prime Minister1990
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin Prime Minister1977
Flag of India.svg India Pratibha Patil President1999, 1986
Narendra Modi Prime Minister1993
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Prime Minister1960
Indira Gandhi Prime Minister1961
Morarji Desai Prime Minister1962
Ayesha Rubina Social Worker2012
Natarajan Velayutham Advocate & Social Worker2024
Arun Daniel Yellamaty Founder Youngistaan Foundation 2022
Flag of Israel.svg Israel Moshe Katzav President1980
Ehud Olmert Prime Minister1978
Flag of Jordan.svg Jordan Adnan Badran Prime Minister1977
Faisal al-Fayez Prime Minister1988
Abdelsalam al-Majali Prime Minister1969
Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev President2004
Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon Amin Gemayel President1979, 1972
Elias Sarkis President1971
Zaven Kouyoumdjian Media Personality2006
Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco Azzedine Laraki Prime Minister1986
Maati Bouabid Prime Minister1965, 1961
Flag of Nepal.svg   Nepal Krishna Prasad Bhattarai Prime Minister1993
Sher Bahadur Deuba Prime Minister
Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan President1949
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Future Prime Minister of Bangladesh 1952
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapakse President1989
Ranil Wickremesinghe Prime Minister1988, 1981
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake Prime Minister1975
Ranasinghe Premadasa President1966
Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia Mohamed Mzali Prime Minister1964
Flag of Qatar.svg Qatar Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani Prime Minister1989
Flag of Yemen.svg Yemen Mohamed Qubaty Minister, Ambassador & Media Personality2001

Sub-Saharan Africa

CountryNameHighest PositionYear Participated
Flag of Benin.svg Benin Nicephore Soglo President1997
Flag of Botswana.svg Botswana Festus G. Mogae President1976
Quett Masire President1975
Flag of Burkina Faso.svg Burkina Faso Roch Marc Christian Kaboré President1999, 1986
Flag of the Central African Republic.svg Central African Republic Andre-Dieudonne Kolingba President1966
Flag of Chad.svg Chad Youssouf Saleh Abbas Prime Minister1999
Nagoum Yamassoum Prime Minister1992
Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg Côte d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo President1993
Daniel Kablan Duncan Prime Minister1974
Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana John Kufuor PresidentLate 1960s
Flag of Guinea.svg Guinea Alpha Condé President1962
Lamine Sidimé Prime Minister1992
Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya Mwai Kibaki President1999
Daniel arap Moi President1969
Flag of Lesotho.svg Lesotho 'Mamohato Seeiso Queen1993
Flag of Madagascar.svg Madagascar Didier Ratsiraka President1973
Philibert Tsiranana President1964
Flag of Malawi.svg Malawi Joyce Banda President1989
Bakili Muluzi President1980
Flag of Mali.svg Mali Alpha Oumar Konaré President1978
Flag of Mauritius.svg Mauritius Anerood Jugnauth President1981
Navinchandra Ramgoolam Prime Minister1986
Karl Offmann President1985
Veerasamy Ringadoo Governor General1982
Dayendranath Burrenchobay Governor General1969
Flag of Mozambique.svg Mozambique Armando Guebuza President1987
Pascoal Mocumbi Prime Minister1986
Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia Nahas Angula Prime Minister1996
Flag of Niger.svg Niger Seyni Oumarou Prime Minister1990
Hama Amadou Prime Minister1986
Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme Vice President
Flag of Rwanda.svg Rwanda Sylvestre Nsanzimana Prime Minister1986
Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Frederik Willem de Klerk President1976
Flag of Senegal.svg Senegal Mame Madior Boye Prime Minister1975
Flag of Seychelles.svg Seychelles France-Albert René President1967
Flag of Eswatini.svg Swaziland Obed Dlamini Prime Minister1986
Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania Julius Nyerere President1960
Flag of Togo (3-2).svg Togo Faure Gnassingbé President2001
Yawovi Agboyibo Prime Minister1997
Edem Kodjo Prime Minister1972
Joseph Kokou Koffigoh Prime Minister1990
Flag of Uganda.svg Uganda Amama Mbabazi Prime Minister2011
Flag of Zambia.svg Zambia Kebby Musokotwane Prime Minister1979
Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe Morgan Tsvangirai Prime Minister1989

Western Hemisphere

CountryNameHighest PositionYear Participated
Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina Fernando de la Rúa President1966
Raúl Alfonsín President1981
Flag of Barbados.svg Barbados Owen Arthur Prime Minister1988
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Prime Minister1975
Tom Adams Prime Minister1973
Flag of Belize.svg Belize Said Musa Prime Minister1995
Flag of Bolivia.svg Bolivia Carlos Mesa President2002, 1979
Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Dilma Rousseff President1992
José Sarney President1964
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Edward Schreyer Governor General1978
Flag of Chile.svg Chile Ricardo Lagos President1988
Marco Antonio Díaz Mayor2021
Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia Álvaro Uribe President1998
Ernesto Samper President1985
César Gaviria President1982
Belisario Betancur President1952
Julio César Turbay Ayala President1977
Flag of Costa Rica.svg Costa Rica Óscar Arias Prime Minister1971
Flag of Dominica.svg Dominica Nicholas Liverpool President1985
Eugenia Charles Prime Minister1995
Patrick John Prime Minister1979
Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Dominican Republic Danilo Medina President1991
Hipólito Mejía President1995
Salvador Jorge Blanco President1979
Flag of Ecuador.svg Ecuador Gustavo Noboa President1960
Jamil Mahuad President1985
Rosalía Arteaga President1993
Rodrigo Borja President1962
Flag of El Salvador.svg El Salvador Armando Calderón Sol President1986
Alfredo Cristiani President1986
Flag of Grenada.svg Grenada Paul Scoon Governor General1972
Flag of Guyana.svg Guyana Hamilton Green Prime Minister1967
Ptolemy Reid President1966
Flag of Guatemala.svg Guatemala Vinicio Cerezo President1976
Alfonso Portillo President1992
Álvaro Arzú President1982
Ramiro de León Carpio President1988
Flag of Haiti.svg Haiti Jacques-Édouard Alexis Prime Minister1983
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot President1980
Leslie Manigat President1959
Flag of Honduras (2022-).svg Honduras Ricardo Maduro President1986
Carlos Roberto Reina President1993
Rafael Leonardo Callejas President1986
José Azcona del Hoyo President1985
Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica Portia Simpson-Miller Prime Minister1981
Howard Cooke Governor General1981
Donald Sangster Prime Minister1960
Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico Felipe Calderón President1992
Flag of Paraguay.svg Paraguay Nicanor Duarte President1989
Flag of Peru.svg Peru Jorge Del Castillo Prime Minister1988
Beatriz Merino Prime Minister1997
Vladimiro Montesinos Intelligence chief1976 [5]
Flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis.svg Saint Kitts and Nevis Denzil Douglas Prime Minister1990
Simeon Daniel Premier1980
Lee Moore Premier1972
Flag of Saint Lucia.svg Saint Lucia Stephenson King Prime Minister1985
Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.svg Saint Vincent and the Grenadines James Fitz-Allen Mitchell Prime Minister1973
Flag of Suriname.svg Suriname Ronald Venetiaan President1981
Ramsewak Shankar President1978
Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg Trinidad and Tobago George Richards President1986
Kamla Persad-Bissessar Prime Minister1998
Patrick Manning Prime Minister1988
Basdeo Panday Prime Minister1978
Michael Williams President1988
Flag of Uruguay.svg Uruguay Tabaré Vázquez President1993
Washington Beltrán President1976
Julio María Sanguinetti President1984
Luis Alberto Lacalle President1968
Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela Rafael Caldera President1962
Luis Herrera Campins President1967

Agencies involved

The IVLP functions through a cooperative agreement with several National Program Agencies and Global Ties U.S., comprising organizations in 45 states, that arrange the itineraries for IVLP exchange participants. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "IVLP Fact Sheet, U.S. Department of State" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-25. Retrieved 2013-09-24.
  2. ↑ "Program History - International Visitor Leadership Program" . Retrieved 2013-09-24.
  3. ↑ "How do you spot a future world leader?, Jon Kelly, BBC News Magazine" . Retrieved 2013-09-24.
  4. ↑ "International Visitor Leadership Program" . Retrieved 2013-09-24.
  5. ↑ "Vladimiro Montesinos - The Declassified Record". George Washington University . Retrieved 2023-04-16.
  6. ↑ "Implementing Partnerships" . Retrieved 2013-09-24.
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