The Ivy Circle, founded in 2008, strives to create and sustain an active community in the Netherlands of alumni of leading North American universities and business schools. Ivy Circle member alumni clubs are encouraged to share their events with alumni of other member clubs, so that the Ivy Circle can develop and maintain an active calendar of alumni events. The Ivy Circle network has grown to 20 member alumni clubs representing a few thousand alumni living in the Netherlands.
Local alumni clubs from the following schools are current members of Ivy Circle Netherlands:
Berkeley Haas (Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley)
Chicago Booth (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
Netherlands Fulbright Alumni Association
Harvard Club of the Netherlands
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Ivy Circle Board
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Hollis Kurman Chair University of Pennsylvania |
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Anthonie Zoomers Secretary University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
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Omer Pelman Treasurer University of California at Berkeley |
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John Terwilliger Fairs Coordinator University of Pennsylvania/Wharton School |
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Aydan Figaroa Events Coordinator Yale University/Yale Law School |
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Erica Phiansunthon Communications University of Pennsylvania |
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Vincent Li Young Alumni Coordinator McGill University |
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Sukai Ceesay Membership Engagement Harvard Business School |
Ivy Circle Advisory Board
Ivy Circle benefits from the support and expertise of a distinguished board of advisors. The board brings together expertise in each of the areas of interest of Ivy Circle: education, arts, business, and society:
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Willem Stevens (Chair) Former Dutch Senator |
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Beth Johnson Owner, Boekhandel van Rossum |
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Ben Bot Former Dutch Foreign Minister |
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Ruth Oldenziel Senior Fellow at Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study |
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Marc van Gelder Non-executive board member at various organizations |
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Martijn Sanders Former Managing Director Concertgebouw |
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Harald Walkate Head of ESG, Natixis Investment Managers |
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Kate Nanavatty Consul General United States |
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Jan Veldhuis Former Board Chairman University of Utrecht |
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Paul Broholm |