Ideas
Explore ideas and perspectives from the ILC's global network of leaders.
The ILC helps leaders make sense of our world. We provide a platform for the exchange of inspiration and innovation, facilitating dialogue that sparks bold ideas and new approaches.
Explore conversations from our Yale Leads podcast, in-depth interviews with policymakers and changemakers, and reports drawing on original research and fieldwork. Together, they offer a window into how leadership is being redefined in practice — and a resource for anyone working to navigate an increasingly complex world.
Video Interviews
Fellows and prominent guests speak about challenges they face leading through complex crises and change.
An interview with former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan
Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan opened up about the promises and pitfalls of his country’s sustainable development journey.
Interview with Zimbabwean activist Evan Mawarire
Zimbabwean democratic activist and Yale World Fellow Evan Mawarire opens up on courage, leadership— and whether the internet can be a force for positive change.
Yale Leads podcast: Kholood Khair on Sudan's war
Peace Fellow Kholood Khair examines Sudan’s war, the international failures to stop it, and the urgent need to elevate civilian voices in the push for justice, democracy, and lasting peace.
Yale Leads podcast: Rabbi Elhanan Miller on religious and cultural dialogue
Elhanan Miller on the power of religious and cultural dialogue in building bridges between Jewish and Muslim communities, and how Elhanan’s Arabic-language media project aims to foster empathy across deep political divides.
Affinity Africa and Yale ILC launch report on the cost of Africa’s cash dependency
A joint report by Affinity Africa, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and the Yale ILC lays bare the cost of Africa’s cash dependency – and the actions needed to break it.
Featured podcast episodes
Yale Leads is the International Leadership Center's podcast, where we dig into today's biggest challenges and spotlight stories of wisdom, courage and creativity from our global network.
George Papandreou on Renewing Democracy
George Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece (2009-2011), joins the ILC’s Yale Leads podcast to discuss leading his country through an economic crisis, building bridges in the Eastern Mediterranean, and reimagining democracy for the 21st century.
Anna Basman
Anna Basman, peace negotiator from the Philippines and a 2026 Yale Peace Fellow, joins the podcast.
George Logothetis: “Know thyself —the two most important words ever written.”
Businessman and philanthropist George Logothetis joins the ILC’s Yale Leads podcast for an open and wide-ranging conversation — on trusting one’s gut, living with gratitude, cultivating original thought, and the importance of historical perspective.
Rhea See
Rhea See, co-founder and CEO of She Loves Tech and a 2025 Yale World Fellow, joins the ILC’s Yale Leads podcast.
Jamil Mahuad
Jamil Mahuad, former President of Ecuador, joins for a fascinating conversation on leadership, instinct, and imagination. He opens up about the choice to go into politics, and his experiences negotiating a peace accord and navigating an economic “perfect storm.”
General Petraeus on Great Power Competition
General Petraeus discusses Israel/Palestine and the war in Gaza; Iran and escalation in the Middle East; democracy and elections in 2024; Russia and Ukraine; and China and Taiwan.
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Profiles
The ILC in conversation with fellows and prominent guests
Q&A with Timothy Musa Kabba
H.E. Timothy Musa Kabba, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in Sierra Leone discusses coups, climate change, and conflict minerals — and his own remarkable journey from a child soldier in his country’s civil war all the way to the UN Security Council.
What the community makes possible
Two fellows from two different programs. One collaboration that neither of them saw coming, and that neither could have built alone.
World Fellow Hakan Altinay on how the fellowship turned into Global Civics
Hakan Altinay went through the World Fellows program in 2009, then spent years trying to work out exactly why it had worked. He now runs a school in Istanbul built on what he found. Free of charge, small, gentle, and designed above all to produce the one thing he thinks our societies are running short of.
Q&A with Icelandic author, advisor, and speaker Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir
2016 Yale World Fellow Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir “InnSæi: Heal, revive and reset with the Icelandic art of intuition,” available in the United Kingdom in March 2024. Hrund shared her insights on the art of flourishing, leading, and innovating in an age of distraction and planetary crisis.
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Events
Cities on the Front Line: Leadership, Design, and Data in the Climate Era | ILC at Yale @ Climate Week NYC
Cities are on the front line of climate adaptation and are often forced to step up among a vacuum of multilateral and national level leadership. This vacuum is particularly stark in countries of the...
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- Yale Club of NYC, Rooftop Room