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*[http://www.carnegie.org/sub/about/vgregorian.html |
*[http://www.carnegie.org/sub/about/vgregorian.html Carnegie Corporation Biography] |
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*[http://www.loc.gov/locvideo/gregorian/ |
*[http://www.loc.gov/locvideo/gregorian/ Library of Congress video of Gregorian discussing autobiography] |
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*[http://newsinfo.nd.edu/content.cfm?topicid=11324 |
*[http://newsinfo.nd.edu/content.cfm?topicid=11324 Gregorian's 2005 Notre Dame commencement speech] |
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*[http://uscpublicdiplomacy.com |
*[http://uscpublicdiplomacy.com USC Center on Public Diplomacy] |
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[[Category:1934 births|Gregorian, Vartan]] |
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Revision as of 01:21, 9 June 2006
Vartan Gregorian is a distinguished Iranian-American academic.
An ethnic Armenian, he was born in Tabriz, Iran in 1934 and educated there, as well as in Lebanon before moving to the United States.
He has received the National Humanities Medal and the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the US. He is currently serving as the president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, a position he has held since June 1997.
Prior to this post, he was the president of the New York Public Library for nine years and of Brown University for a further nine.
Gregorian is on the Advisory Board of USC Center on Public Diplomacy and is a member of the editorial board of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
External links
- Carnegie Corporation Biography
- Library of Congress video of Gregorian discussing autobiography
- Gregorian's 2005 Notre Dame commencement speech
- USC Center on Public Diplomacy
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