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About IYPF

The Organisation

The IYPF's vision is "a global community of young professionals creating a better world for current and future generations through local and global action". The IYPF sets out to achieve this by informing, inspiring and equipping young professionals as sustainability practitioners and social change agents. Young professionals are those aged 18 - 40, typically in the early stages of their careers.

During its first five years, the IYPF has made waves in international circuits, through attendance at events such as the World Summit for Sustainable Development, the Youth Employment Summit and the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting 2002, and has support from a range of international leaders and heads of state. The IYPF is governed by an international board of six outstanding young professionals and is growing an impressive list of patrons on its Advisory Council including the President of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations, the Chair of the Commonwealth Engineering Council, the Executive Director of the Youth Employment Summit, and the Director of Friends of the Earth (Hong Kong).

See the latest organisational structure in our 2006 AGM presentation here.

The IYPF's board engages a team of over 30 talented and dedicated young professionals to run the operations of the company on a voluntary basis.

The Beginnings

See where it all began - The IYPS 2001: including a PPT summary of the event and key points and recommendations / the IYPS 2001 Resolutions / and a link to where you can download all the agenda papers produced for each region, thematic and action area.

Read The Dream upon which the IYPF was founded and is working to help realise!