SUMMER 2009 74 THE ASPEN IDEA faces 25th Annual Awards Dinner Friends of the Institute celebrate leadership in New York at the annual fall benefit. Dinner co-chair and Institute trustee Anne Welsh McNulty with trustee Sylvia Earle, world-renowned marine biologist Dr. Dorothy Shore Zinberg of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Cecilia Chan, vice chair of Immtech Pharmaceuticals Henry Crown Fellow and Obama advisor Mara Rudman with former US Secretary of State and Institute trustee Madeleine Albright Ed Hudson with Institute trustee Melva Bucksbaum Francis R. Hoffman, trustee of the Henry and Gladys Crown Trust, and William E. Mayer, outgoing Institute chairman and recipient of the Henry Crown Leadership Award Ambassador John and Irene Danilovich Kevin McNulty, Johnny McNulty, and Jordan Kassalow, winner of the John P. McNulty Prize
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faces 25th Annual Awards DinnerFriends of the Institute celebrate leadership in New York at the annual fall benefit.
Dinner co-chair and Institute trustee Anne Welsh McNulty with trustee Sylvia Earle, world-renowned marine biologist
Dr. Dorothy Shore Zinberg of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Cecilia Chan, vice chair of Immtech Pharmaceuticals
Henry Crown Fellow and Obama advisor Mara Rudman with former US Secretary of State and Institute trustee Madeleine Albright
Ed Hudson with Institute trustee Melva Bucksbaum
Francis R. Hoffman, trustee of the Henry and Gladys Crown Trust, and William E. Mayer, outgoing Institute chairman and recipient of the Henry Crown Leadership Award
Ambassador John and Irene Danilovich
Kevin McNulty, Johnny McNulty,
and Jordan Kassalow, winner
of the John P. McNulty Prize
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Institute trustees Margot Pritzker and Olara Otunnu
Kiran Pasricha and lifetime trustee Tarun Das, both of the Confederation of Indian Industry and Aspen Institute India
Peter G. Peterson, founder and chairman of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, receives the Corporate Achievement Award from incoming Institute Chairman Robert K. Steel
Pierre Merle with Maha Kaddoura, president of Kaddoura Charitable Foundation
Institute CEO Walter Isaacson with trustee Mercedes Bass and her husband, Sid R. Bass, co-chairs of the dinner
Evelyn Lauder, president and chairman of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, with Institute trustee Ann Frasher Hudson
The New York Times’ Thomas L. Friedman with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and ABC’s Barbara Walters
Photography by Clint Spaulding/Patrick McMullen Photography
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faces Behind the ScenesAt the 2009 Aspen Environment Forum
Gary Hart, distinguished fellow of the New America Foundation, and David Sandalow, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and former CIA Director R. James Woolsey share a laugh.
Alcinda Antonio de Abreu, Mozambique’s minister of coordination and environmental action, with Institute trustee Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan
Daniel Nocera of MIT and Auden Schendler of the Aspen Skiing Company exchange ideas.
Be Heard TV interviews Jim Ball, president and CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network
Sustainability expert Joel Makower talks to national Geographic.
Catto Fellows Suzanne Biegel, Kwong To “Plato” Yip, and Amal Aldabbabesh
Photography by Michael Brands
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Socrates participants Ronit Avni and Evelyn Farkas
A Nonstop SeasonThe Socrates Society met over Presidents Weekend
Socrates Society Founders Laura and Gary Lauder
The dialogue continues on the gondola. Nelson Ortiz, David Javdan, Jeff Speck, and Barbara Buchanan.
Photography by Zach Ornitz
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faces Leading in the LevanteThe US-Lebanon Dialogue Launched in December
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