About Us

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)

Brown University

Chicago Booth (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

Columbia Business School

Cornell University

Dartmouth College

Netherlands Fulbright Alumni Association

Harvard Club of the Netherlands

Harvard Business School

Johns Hopkins University/SAIS

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

McGill University

University of Notre Dame

University of Pennsylvania

Princeton University

Stanford University

Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Tufts University

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Yale University

Ivy Circle Board

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	Hollis Kurman – Chair University of Pennsylvania
	Johan van Rijn – Secretary Yale University, Fulbright
	John Terwilliger – Fairs Coordinator University of Pennsylvania/Wharton School
	Ana Garcia – Communications University of Chicago Booth School of Business
	Tim Oldeman – Young Alumni Cornell University
	Sukai Ceesay – Membership Engagement Harvard Business School
	Mark Reijerkerk – Treasurer Columbia Business School
	Alexandra Sasha Perepelova – Communications Cornell University

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:

Willem Stevens (Chair) Former Dutch Senator	Beth Johnson Owner, Boekhandel van Rossum
Ben Bot Former Dutch Foreign Minister	Ruth Oldenziel Senior Fellow at Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study
Marc van Gelder Non-executive board member at various organizations	Martijn Sanders Former Managing Director Concertgebouw
Louise Gunning-Schepers	Harald Walkate Head of ESG, Natixis Investment Managers
Jennifer DeWitt Walsh Consul General United States	Jan Veldhuis Former Board Chairman University of Utrecht
Paul Broholm Director at InsingerGilissen