About the Millennium Leadership Program

Since its inception, the Atlantic Council’s Millennium Leadership Program (MLP) has focused on building a vibrant community of leaders who transform bold ideas into action. Through its programming, the MLP equips global professionals across diverse industries with the tools to elevate their leadership and expand their impact. Participants gain access to a global network of exceptional peers, engage with world leaders through global study tours, participate in dynamic leadership development experiences, and lead the debate on key issues.

The Millennium Leadership Program is built on three core pillars: leadership, community, and impact. These pillars are woven into every aspect of programming, enabling participants to grow both personally and professionally while contributing to a larger global community. Together, they equip leaders to address today’s challenges and shape a more equitable, prosperous future. Through the MLP, leaders gain tools to enhance their leadership skills, amplify their ability to drive meaningful change, and build strong, supportive networks. The MLP boasts a robust and active alumni network, ensuring participants stay connected and engaged after completing the program.

“The Millennium Fellowship connects the internal to the interpersonal, and ultimately to the international. What binds us together as fellows is a commitment to lead from a place of hope.”

Karim Farishta, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense

(Millennium Fellowship 2023)

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Oct 5, 2015

Skills & Training Curriculum

By Millennium Leadership Program

Listed below are a sample of skills and training sessions from past fellowship years.                                     Debra Osofsky Bio: Debra Osofsky is a negotiator, educator, problem-solver and workplace expert with a diverse portfolio as a freelance consultant and trainer. She provides advice […]

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Sep 16, 2015

Transatlantic Core Group

By Millennium Leadership Program

The transatlantic relationship faces severe challenges, both now and for the future – this was of mutual concern among German and American participants of the Transatlantic Core Group’s inaugural meeting on Wasan Island, Canada this past month. When narrowing in on US-German relations, it is clear that the political rift over the Iraq war, Guantanamo, […]

Press Release

Jul 22, 2015

Application Opens for Year Two of Atlantic Council Veterans Take Point Initiative

By Atlantic Council

The Atlantic Council is taking the lead in developing the next generation of veteran foreign policy leaders. Through an intensive fellowship program dubbed “Take Point”, the Council and Bob Woodruff Foundation will offer professional training, networking, engagement with senior foreign policy heavyweights such as former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Gov. Jon Huntsman, and General […]

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Jun 12, 2015

Call for Applications: 2016 Veterans Take Point Initiative

By Millennium Leadership Program

Applications have closed.  The Atlantic Council is seeking applications for the Take Point Initiative, a fellowship program and funding competition open to veterans of the United States Armed Forces who are 35 years old and younger and who currently work in, or would like to transition to, careers in foreign policy and international affairs. Launched […]

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Jun 11, 2015

2015 ELEEP Fellowship Application

By Millennium Leadership Program

The Atlantic Council and Ecologic Institute are pleased to announce that the Emerging Leaders in Environmental and Energy Policy Network (ELEEP) is now accepting applications from rising leaders in North America and Europe to join the ELEEP Network in 2015. The application period for 2015 has closed. Please return in the spring to apply for […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 9, 2015

United States Cannot Lead from Behind in the Arctic

By John-Daniel Kelley

Even as the United States celebrates the beginning of its chairmanship of the Arctic Council, it hesitates to take leadership in the Arctic region. This reluctance highlights a dichotomy between US strategic interests in the Arctic and that of every other Arctic power which, if not addressed, increases the likelihood of regional instability. 

Europe & Eurasia

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Apr 27, 2015

Young professionals day 2015 report

By Atlantic Council

The Atlantic Council, in partnership with NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT), held the 4th annual Young Professionals Day (YP Day) in Washington, DC, on March 24. The event featured a full-day, outcome-oriented, strategic design thinking exercise with sixty young professionals representing twenty-four of NATO’s twenty-eight member nations. Delegates collaborated to produce a list of creative […]

Press Release

Apr 23, 2015

Atlantic Council Welcomes Inaugural Class of Millennium Fellows

By Atlantic Council

The Atlantic Council is convening twenty-one exceptional rising leaders from around the world this week in Washington, DC for the formal launch of the Millennium Fellowship. The fellowship seeks to connect innovative  leaders under thirty-five years old who will shape the twenty-first century and empower them to pursue transformational change with a global vision.

Press Release

Feb 19, 2015

Navy Pilot Ben Kohlmann Wins Top Prize in Inaugural Atlantic Council Take Point Initiative Competition, with former Marine Corps Captain Amanda Burke and 82nd Airborne Paratrooper Zachary McDonald as Finalists

By Atlantic Council

The Atlantic Council’s Millennium Leadership Program, in partnership with the Bob Woodruff Foundation, is proud to announce Navy F/A-18 pilot Benjamin Kohlmann and his initiative, the Defense Entrepreneurs Forum (DEF), as the winner of the inaugural Take Point Initiative Competition. Selected by a panel of distinguished judges from the ten projects proposed by each of […]

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Jan 22, 2015

Young Professionals Day 2015

The Atlantic Council, in partnership with NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) held the 4th annual Young Professionals Day (YP Day) in Washington DC on March 24. NATO YP Day 2015 gave a group of rising young security professionals and academics a unique opportunity to impact policy, enhance their understanding of modern global security, engage with senior […]