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2010 Annual Report and Dinner Booklet
2010 Partnership Events and Annual Dinner
FPRI has always sought to bring the best of scholarship to bear on foreign policy problems. Moreover, a crucial part of the Institute's program stresses the importance of public service on behalf of the nation. These two elements are also symbolized by the career of Benjamin Franklin, who devoted himself from an early age to public service and the resolution of problems through objective analysis that draws upon the best knowledge available. Franklin's international career culminated in his role as a diplomat whose work proved crucial in securing American independence.
In 2005, on the occasion of FPRI.s 50th anniversary and on the eve of the 300th birthday of Benjamin Franklin, we were pleased to inaugurate the annual Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Service, to be awarded each year to the person whose public service best exemplifies the ideals of Benjamin Franklin and the United States. Dr. Henry A. Kissinger was the first honoree, followed by Charles Krauthammer, Philip Zelikow, John R. Bolton and Robert D. Kaplan. FPRI's trustees are now pleased to present this award to Niall Ferguson.
Niall Ferguson is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and the William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School. He also is a Contributing Editor to the Financial Times (London) and a Regular Contributor to Newsweek Magazine. He is the author of several highly regarded books including: The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Penguin, 2008), War of the World: 20th Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006). Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (Penguin (2004), and Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order (Basic, 2003). In 2004, Time Magazine named him "one of the world's hundred most influential people." His most recent book is High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg (Penguin, June 2010).
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On November 15th at the FPRI annual dinner Fouad Ajami was presented with the Seventh Annual Benjamin Franklin Public Service Award. The event was attended by over 360 people.
Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr. was dinner chairman.
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Fouad Ajami
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