William Webster
Executive Director of CCI

William Webster has been promoting and developing international youth leadership for ten years. After working with the Congressional Youth Leadership Council in DC and the National Youth Leadership Forum in Philadelphia, Webster moved to Europe to launch a similar initiative in Central Europe, where he founded Civic Concepts International and the International Youth Leadership Conference, which is now in its eighth year. In Dubai CCI took this same principle to strengthen the voice of women in the Middle East where Webster met with Benazir Bhutto and the Sheikh of Dubai promoting youth development. International Youth Leadership Africa was launched by CCI with these same ideas with a regional perspective in mind in order to develop the next generation of African Leader. While in Cape Town at the founding IYLA Webster sat down with the conference's key note Morgan Tsvangirai and spoke about ongoing regional issues and the importance of reaching out to the next generation.

Lore Breitmeyer-Jones
Financial and Legal Director

Lore serves as the Financial and Legal Executive of Civic Concepts International, the organization which hosts IYLC. Lore graduated with an economics degree from Georgetown University (SFS ’90) and came to Prague in 1992 to open her first business, RED HOT & BLUES RESTAURANT, which she is still successfully running to date. Lore is also the proud mother of a twelve year old girl, Katie, who hopes to attend the 25th IYLC in Winter 2013.

Ismayil Khayredinov
Conference Director

Ismayil's involvement with Civic Concepts International tracks back to 8th IYLC in 2004, when he attended the conference and fell in love with Prague. Since then he assisted the project in various capacities - logistics coordinator, communications administrator, facilitator - and filled in the position of the Conference Director in January 2008. With his educational background in Economics and Cybernetics, Ismayil believes firmly in a systematic and interdisciplinary approach to education, and is therefore passionate about the IYLC, which offers an ideal opportunity to blend the diverse experiences to produce something unique, innovative and inventive. Ismayil is eagerly anticipating the next conference, which will once again take him to a "different world", where there is no war, no misunderstanding, no hatred, no violance, the world that is governed by the ideas of peace and the common sense of shared future.

Kiryl Stsezhkin
Project Assistant

Kiryl is a newcomer to CCI. This May he joined our networking team, which is in charge of developing the International Youth Leadership Network (IYLN). Kiryl is a last year student at the Department of Humanities at Charles University in Prague. His major is Sociology and Philosophy of History. He speaks Russian, German, Czech, and English. Kiryl was born in Belarus, where he has studied at the department of philosophy at European Humanities University in Minsk. He came to Prague in order to continue his education in 2005. He is interested in traveling and collecting books. Kiryl considers his work at CCI a unique opportunity to gain new experiences and develop his skills in the field of multicultural relations.

Lily Walter
IYLN Coordinator

Lily Walter is a new member of Civic Concepts International and is the Coordinator of the development team for the International Youth Leadership Network. Originally from California, Lily has lived in the Czech Republic for the last five years and is currently finishing her BA in International Relations at Anglo American University. During her time in Prague Lily has come to understand the importance of developing international cooperation and positive interaction as she believes that leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.