This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Brewer Foundation / NYU International Public Policy Forum and a new milestone in our mission to advance civil discourse around the globe.

The Brewer Foundation proudly announces a partnership with the Texas Southern University (TSU) Debate Team, a world-class program from one of the nation’s premier Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

As a high school student in 2006 and 2007, Alex Pouille did the remarkable. He became a two-time champion of a high school debate contest...

The Brewer Foundation / NYU International Public Policy Forum (IPPF) is launching its 2025-26 competition, and this year, high school students from around the globe will wrestle with one of the most consequential public policy challenges of our time: how to ensure universal access to a quality education.

May 3, 2025 — After eight months of fierce international competition, a team from Carroll Senior High School in Southlake, Texas, has...

A unique challenge to the IPPF process is finding the best way to write a cohesive essay authored by three, four, or sometimes even more...

A team of students from Westwood High School of Austin, Texas, has been named the 2024 IPPF World Champion.

May 4, 2024 – The Anchorage Daily News reports that students from West High in Anchorage, Alaska, qualified for the final round in the...

May 2, 2024 — The Coppell Gazette reports that the Coppell High School debate team has won an all-expenses-paid trip to the...

April 25, 2024 – Hawaii News Now reports that the Damien Memorial School debate team qualified for the International Public Policy Forum...

March 1, 2024 — The Dallas Express reports on two North Texas high school teams competing in the 23rd annual International Public Policy...

May 8, 2023 – A team of students from Potomac Oak in Rockville, Maryland, were crowned world champions Saturday, winning the 22nd Annual...

May 12, 2023 — Newsweek reports that Sanika Agarwalla, a junior from The Hockaday School in Dallas, Texas, received the inaugural John E....

May 10, 2024 -- Newsweek reports that, this weekend, eight high school teams from around the world will compete in the final round of the...

May 5, 2022 — TribLIVE reports that students from Pine-Richland High School have emerged from a field of 120 participants from around the...

April 30, 2022 – A team of students from Pine-Richland High School of Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, bested a field of high schools from around...

For seven months, debate teams from around the globe have exchanged written debates in the 21st Annual Brewer Foundation / New York...

Slovak National Team Students Crowned Champion of International Public Policy Forum Debate Contest May 1, 2021 – A team of students from...

April 13, 2021 — Colorado Hometown Weekly reports that "[s]tudents’ perseverance through the pandemic is something that’s not up for...

Making creative, original arguments may be most important for the qualifying essay portion of the contest. From the perspective of a...