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The Northern California World Trade
Center is proud to be a partner of
the U.S. State Department's International
Visitor Leadership Program. Working together with the State Department
and the National Council for International Visitors, the WTC provides
local hosting and programming services for high-level foreign delegations
visiting the U.S. We are currently seeking volunteers in the community who
are interested in meeting with delegations consisting of international
Members of Parliament, European Union officials, foreign Cabinet members
and staff, university professors, journalists, business leaders and
more.
Northern California
World Trade Center Recognized for Accomplishments in Citizen
Diplomacy: The State Department on International
Visitor Leadership Programs (IVLP) has selected the
Northern
California
World
Trade
Center
to participate in a pilot project designed to show the future benefits and
past accomplishments of citizen diplomacy through the IVLP. The project will
involve filming the NorCalWTC’s Associate Programmer discussing a program
that was facilitated a year ago for a group of Bee Keepers traveling from
Uzbekistan
to the
Sacramento
region. The video will not only tell the story of the global visit, but will
reflect the importance of creating overseas relationships and the positive
impacts on the lives of all involved in the IVLP program. The NorCalWTC was
selected based on the following writing submission and will be a part of the
filming while they are back on the East Coast for the National conference in
February. Click
here for full story.
"The
IVL Program offers priceless opportunities to understand the United States
and the American people through direct experience, and to make valuable
contacts...I am immensely grateful for the insights into the U.S., which
this exchange scheme provided. I have drawn on them regularly since
then."
~Tony
Blaire, former British Prime Minister
"We
need not only the professional diplomats who serve in our foreign services
and represent our countries to one another. We need citizen diplomats."
- Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton
(India
, July 20, 2009)
PAST
DELEGATIONS
ALUMNI: Over 250 IVLP alumni
are current or former Heads of Government or Chiefs of State. Alumni
include:
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President Hamid
Karzai of Afghanistan
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President Alvaro
Uribe Velez of Colombia
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President Mwai
Kibaki of Kenya
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Prime Mimister Ehud
Olmert of Israel
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Prime Minister
Helen Clark of new Zealand
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President Nicolas
Sarkozy of France
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Prime Minister
Gordon Brown of The United Kingdom
NATIONWIDE NETWORK:
The WTC is a Community
Organization member of the National Council of International
Visitors. As one of over 90 centers for International visitors, we
are committed to bridging cultures and building mutually beneficial
relationships through international exchanges. Visit the NCIV
website to view a directory of programming
agencies across the United States.
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