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01/2006 New boost for alumni-driven events Eisenhower Fellowships is pleased to make available funds in support of Fellow-initiated gatherings that increase productive interchange and collaboration among alumni. Fellows have increasingly expressed interest in more exciting and dynamic opportunities, closer to home, to build on EF’s extraordinary alumni talent and experience. To this end, EF welcomes proposals from national and local alumni groups on a smaller scale than the traditional bi-annual world conferences. These may be for organizing events on relevant national leadership issues or on other topics grounded in Fellows’ diverse individual and group interests; they can range from a weekend get-together to hosting a key dignitary in cooperation with other like-minded organizations (such as Fulbright or Harvard alumni groups). Events involving a larger audience or bringing together Fellows sharing common interests at a major conference (such as agriculture Fellows attending the Farm Journal Forum in Washington, D.C.) are also eligible. Event criteria and applications for support are available here.
Executive vice-president of economics society Rafael Repullo '98, Spain, has been appointed to a five-year term as executive vice-president of the Econometric Society, the most prestigious international society in the field of economics. The new position will subsume those of secretary and treasurer. The Society was founded in 1930 by Yale economist Irving Fisher, who served as the Society's first president, and the Norwegian economist Ragnar Frisch. For more information visit www.econometricsociety.org. Repullo is a professor of economics and director of Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros in Madrid, a prestigious graduate school in economics and finance founded by the Bank of Spain in 1987.
Reading ambassador & most popular host Tantowi Yahya ’05, Indonesia, was named as the 2006 Reading Ambassador by the Indonesian National Library and the British Council on December 20. It is the first time this honor has been awarded. Yahya has long served as an advocate of reading and last year during his fellowship program he initiated the Books for Indonesia Project, an effort to bring over 100,000 books to Indonesia each year. He has also worked with the Indonesian-American Friendship Association to organize workshops in public libraries. As reading ambassador, Yahya will travel throughout the country to promote reading among Indonesians Yahya also continued to achieve in his profession, receiving his third consecutive Panasonic Award as the most popular quiz/game show host for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? He also received a special award from the Indonesian Music Awards for his achievements in country music in Indonesia.
Fellows collaborate to prevent disease Marina Khan ’04 and Rozina Mistry ’04, both of Pakistan, have collaborated on a health promotion video on preventing hepatitis B. Khan, an actress and director, is the founder and director of Fat Cat Productions, a television production company. Mistry is the director of community health and health promotion at Aga Khan Health Service in Karachi.
Fellow named EF trustee Alfonso Vegara ’87, Spain, has been named to the Board of Trustees of Eisenhower Fellowships. Vegara has previously served on EF’s Alumni Advisory Committee (formerly known as the International Advisory Committee). An urban planner and architect, Vegara is the president of the International Society of City and Regional Planners and Fundación Metrópoli, a not-for-profit institution that offers international perspective on urban and regional development, innovation and planning, informed by best practices from cities around the world.
EF trustees meet with Chinese Fellows Above: Zhang Ke, Zhu Jianmin, Cui Jianguo, Jiang Bo, Lord Browne of Madingley, Tang Zhonghua, Chen Shun, Xie Feng, and Sun Yuguo. Recent visits by EF trustees Lord Browne of Madingley and Edward Hanway to China have furthered dialogue among alumni Fellows and helped to prepare for the 2006 Northeast Asia Program, in which China will be a major participant. Lord Browne, group chief executive of BP p.l.c., hosted several Chinese Fellows at breakfast on November 2, 2005 in Bejing. A lively discussion on economic development and energy issues took place. Hanway, chairman of CIGNA Corporation, met with 13 Fellows in January while he was in China to receive the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs’ Marco Polo Award, the nation's highest honor given to a foreign business leader. The Fellows offered their congratulations to Hanway and briefed him of the progress of Eisenhower Fellowships programs in China.	Edward Hanway with the Chinese Fellows.
Fellow delivers keynote address David B. Thornburgh ’00, USA, delivered the keynote address at the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce’s annual economic outlook breakfast on January 13^th. Thornburgh took as the inspiration for his speech Rosabeth Kanter’s notion that "confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair," using this idea to describe Philadelphia’s recent successful efforts to develop itself and to better market itself to the rest of the world. Thornburgh serves as the executive director of the Pennsylvania Economy League, Southeastern Pennsylvania (PEL), a “think and do tank” that supports private sector leadership by promoting better government for a more competitive Pennsylvania.