Organizing Committee: AIESEC
Media Partner: The Future Leadership Institute*
(*Between 2007 and 2011 the Institute carried temporarily the name ‘The Wall Street Journal Future Leadership Institute’)
Venue: The Medina of Yasmine Hammamet, Tunesia
17 February 2010 | FLI Joint Seminar | Tunesia

How to attend ?
The Wall Street Journal Future Leadership Institute* has 2 extra seats for this conference. If interested to attend, send us your full details via mail + explain why you want to attend. The Future Leadership Institute will then select the guests.

Introduction
Tunisia will, for the first time in its history, be hosting the 52nd summit of AIESEC International, named ‘‘Global Leaders Summit” which is the biggest International AIESEC Congress that will gather, in February 2010, more than 300 young leaders from more than 100 countries and territories of the 5 continents.

This congress will be the occasion to get together companies, leaders and other bodies around themes of diversity, leadership and sustainable development as well as to contribute to the development of our organization to allow her to stay competitive and to have a positive impact on world’s societies.

Lasting 10 days, this seminar will take place from the 17th of February 2010 to the 26th of February in the Medina of Yasmine Hammamet. Some sessions of the ‘‘Global Leaders Summit” will be open to the public. Moreover, many top managers of prestigious multinationals will take part in this congress, companies such as: Alcatel-Lucent, DHL, Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the World Bank and many others.

During the ‘‘Global Leaders Summit”, several events will be held from which you could find a non-exhaustive list below:
•Opening Ceremony
•Workshops, conferences and sessions
•Business Meetings
•Global Fair
•Global Village
•The Home-made workshop
•Tunisian Night

Opening Ceremony
The Official Opening Ceremony designates the start of gathering Young Leaders from 107 countries at the Global Leaders Summit, and will be attended by an audience of over 400 delegates from across the globe, as well as honorable guests and partners from several different countries. All delegates, AIESEC in Tunisia members, speakers and partners, board of advisors, public administrative bodies, alumni and media representatives will be there to witness this extraordinary beginning of Global Leaders Summit.

The Medina of Yasmine Hammamet, Tunesia

AIESEC members working together during the Global Leaders Summit

Global Village
The Global Village Event comes to life, creating a dramatic whirlwind of experiences. Explore the different parts of the world, feel the cultural differences, enjoy live performances, taste an array of authentic cuisines and the specificity of over100 countries. Take part in the amazing multitude of international entertainment where every country tells it’s own story. Global Village is the place where the world comes together! Feel the unity of the World.

Tunisian Night
The Tunisian night is an event where delegates will have dinner based on Tunisian cuisine followed by a few performances that result purely Tunisian history. This event will bring together delegates from the global summit leaders and partners of AIESEC International and guests of the organizing committee. The show will be presented which will aim to give a good image of Tunisia to our guests.

Gala Dinner
The Gala dinner is an official ceremony and will be held on the last night of GLS. It will be a celebration of the successes achieved in the journey for organizational effectiveness. As part of this special event, ING awards will be given to the best performing countries as a recognition for their outstanding contribution to the network.

Leadership Session with Gert Van Mol, speaker and moderator:
As part of AIESEC’s 52nd Annual Global Leaders Summit, the Future Leadership Institute* hosted panel discussions on the Future of Leadership and the Future of Media. Drawing on the diversity represented by over 200 AIESEC national presidents from more than 100 countries, the output of the debates was harvested and will be presented at the Future Leadership BREE/SCHILDE Summit in November of 2010. 

Participants
• Media Debate Participants:
o Anti Print – Michele (USA)
o Anti Print – Franklin (Panama, AIESEC International Team)
o Pro Print – Mohamed Ali (Bahrain)
o Pro Print – Georg (Austria)

• Leadership Debate Participants
o For MNC – Owen (Canada, AIESEC in Croatia)
o For MNC – Daniel (Czech Republic, AIESEC in UK)
o Against MNC – Ana Laura Schmidt (Brazil)
o Against MNC – Gina (USA, AIESEC in Mongolia)

Biographies of the participants:

AIESEC Anna Laura Schmidt

Anna Laura was born in Porto Alegre, in the south of Brazil, where also studied Biomedicine and completed a masters degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology. Since 2004 she has worked with research in the fields of inherited diseases of the metabolism and childhood cancer. Since 2007 Anna Laura is working in AIESEC as a volunteer and played roles such as running recruitment and selection processes, delivering training sessions for team leaders, analysing data for decision making and managing agenda of conferences for up to 400 delegates. She has also developed leadership competencies by leading high performing teams and coaching several leaders. Anna has developed further leadership development programs in both local and national levels to leverage the performance of the organization. These duties combine her technical background with her special interest for management and education. Anna Laura lives in São Paulo, Brazil, working as responsible for Talent Management of AIESEC in Brazil and has been elected president for the 2010-2011 term.

AIESEC Daniel Vaverka

Born in 1988 in the socialist Czechoslovakia, Daniel spent his childhood growing up in a small city in the eastern part of the Czech Republic. He attended a top ranked Czech high school where subjects were toughed in English and graduated with four As. Later on he went to study at the Warwick Business School in the UK. Daniel is passionate about promoting youth leadership and about management of youth NGOs. In 2004 – 2007 he was an active member of United Games of Nations and in 2007 he joined AIESEC UK as a marketing representative at the Warwick’s branch. After a series of promotions, he was elected the national president of AIESEC UK for 2010/2011. Having gained an extensive experience with leading youth organizations and with managing multicultural teams, Daniel has delivered sessions on these topics at conferences in Canada, UK, Estonia and India. He has visited 28 countries and in his free time Daniel enjoys skiing and rock-climbing. In the future, Daniel would like to work for a top-tier management consultancy and to set up his own NGO.

AIESEC Franklin Morales

Franklin is an internationally experienced youth leader specialist in executive sales and corporate relations management. He is a Global Manager for the Leadership Team of AIESEC International, the largest youth driven organization in the world. As Executive Director of AIESEC in Central America his office was awarded as the best branch in Latin America based on excellence and performance. He has experience in over 25 countries and has performed executive sales in over 10 countries in Americas and Europe. Recently he has been managing global strategic partnerships with organizations like Instituto de Empresa Business School in Spain and Electrolux in Sweden. He is also performing executive sales of AIESEC for Scandinavia, Spain, Belgium and the United Kingdom.

AIESEC Gina Palmisano

Gina Palmisano is a current student at the George Washington University in Washington, DC.  She will graduate in May with a degree in International Business and Marketing.  Gina has been involved in AIESEC, the world’s largest student-based organization which focuses on youth leadership development and the facilitation of exchange to promote cultural cooperation and understanding, for her entire college career and looks forward to her challenging next step as the Member Committee President elect of AIESEC in Mongolia.  While at school Gina is active in her local AIESEC DC chapter, works at the National Parks Conservation Association and participates in George Washington Women in Business.  She also loves doing Pilates, traveling, reading, and watching movies with friends.

AIESEC Michele Trickey

I’m a visual artist who studies science and is preparing to run a US$1.4 million business next year. I grew up Catholic, talkative, and surrounded by books and numbers. My dad’s a businessman, and we have a great picture of him reading the Wall Street Journal to an 8-week-old me. The indoctrination didn’t quite work — I haven’t yet studied economics. However, I did put the mathematical skills I inherited to good use: I’ll graduate from Yale University this May with a degree in physics. My capstone research in atmospheric physics has taken me to coastal Ecuador and Chile. Outside of science, I love people and the world. This has led to my participation in AIESEC, the world’s largest student-based organization, which is dedicated to leadership development and internship exchange. After my term as President of AIESEC Yale, I was elected President of AIESEC United States for 2010-2011. I speak fluent Spanish and proficient Russian, and my dream is to connect leaders across geographic and disciplinary boundaries toward better solutions for natural disaster mitigation and water resource management. In the meantime, I’ll be co-leading 40 other AIESEC presidents worldwide to drive a 100% increase in technical exchange during our terms.

AIESEC Mohamed Ali

My name is Mohamed Ali, the current President of AIESEC Bahrain. Graduated with a bachelors of Business Administration in 2006, and just finished my MBA with a concentration in Human Resource Management in 2009. I started with the interest in working in the HR field, and training and development; but my interest in education reform on the national country level has started to emerge lately. I’m an enthusiastic individual with 4 years in different AIESEC experiences. Unfortunately I still did not go on an internship, but thinking of going on one this summer. I love the world of politics, worlds news and economics. My daily dose of news comes from reading some local news papers, and listening to the BBC radio channel. I bring my sense of creativity and new approaches to any issue on the table. I always love to step out of the comfort zone and think on the contrary of everyone else. I like to challenge myself, and love challenging people around me with ideas that they hold even if it means standing against my own ideas. I look forward to be one of the honored people selected to be part of this prestigious debate.

AIESEC Owen Chung

Owen was born and raised in Canada, where he earned his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta. While earning his degree, he worked in both business development and in the engineering technical field. His studies and work experience has led him to different parts of Europe, allowing him to have lived and worked in Germany and Croatia. In Germany, he completed a course on renewable energy and worked for a wind power company, eab Projektmanagement GmbH. In Croatia, he now works with AIESEC, an international not-for-profit organization focused on providing students with leadership development opportunities. Through his work in AIESEC, he’s worked with many different companies and organizations to help provide internships for students wanting to work internationally, as well as organized several conferences focused on leadership development for young people from different parts of the world. He is now doing coaching and consulting work for local chapters as a Vice President on AIESEC Croatia’s national team. After his work in AIESEC, he plans on getting his MBA and working in management consulting, and to later work in the area of social entrepreneurship.

AIESEC Georg Harer

I was born in 1987 in Graz, Austria, where I also went to school. My education was focused on the traditional values of arts and sciences. In addition to foreign languages (English, Latin, French, Spanish), which were main subjects, I also learned to play the piano for 10 years. I have been a very active and creative yet independent person, who has learned to question things and discuss problems. At the age of 17, I won the national speech contest of Austria with the topic “more rights for left handed people” receiving the highest possible score.
Since 2005 I have studied law and business administration at Graz University. At the age of 19, I founded my own company in the IT sector, creating customized IT solutions for small and medium enterprises. At the age of 20, I joined the international student organization AIESEC. After one month, I was elected member of the executive board in Graz for 2008, being responsible for managing company relations, while working in this role on national level in 2009. I was elected President of AIESEC in Austria in January 2010, which will mean leading and representing an organization of over 300 active members on national and international level.

Quote from moderator Gert Van Mol, VIP Program Manager, The Wall Street Journal Europe:
“I have seldom met such a group of passionate young people as AIESEC members. The AIESEC group I met in Tunisia mirrors the future of society: intense, diverse, in-depth, entrepreneurial, engaged… and fun. If we could have had the 200 AIESEC members present at the Annual Global Leaders Summit in Tunisia in charge of Belgian’s biggest bank, FORTIS, in 2009, would the bank still exist today? I think yes. As a parent I will try to steer my children towards understanding the necessity of engaging in a student organisation such as AIESEC.”