Michael Radu Memorial Lecture

The U.S. and Latin America: Keynote Address

Mary Anastasia O’Grady

October 28, 2009 / Philadelphia

Mary Anastasia O’Grady joined the paper in August 1995 and became a senior editorial page writer in December 1999. She became a member of the Editorial Board in 2005. She previously worked as an options strategist, first for Advest Inc. and then for Thomson McKinnon Securities in 1983. She moved to Merrill Lynch & Co. in 1984 as an options strategist and was also a product manager and a sales manager for Merrill Lynch Canada and Merrill Lynch International during her 10 years with the company. In 1997 Ms. O’Grady won the Inter American Press Association’s Daily Gleaner Award for editorial commentary, and in 1999 she received an honorable mention in IAPA’s opinion award category. In 2005 she won the Bastiat Prize for journalism, which honors writers who promote the institutions of a free society.

The symposium was sponsored by the Foreign Policy Research Institute and cosponsored by the Pan American Association.

The lecture is delivered in memory of our dear colleague Michael Radu (April 29, 1947 – March 25, 2009).

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