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 INTERNATIONAL SELECTION BOARD
A distinguished international selection board appointed by University of Georgia President Michael F. Adams chooses the recipient of the Delta Prize for Global Understanding. The award, established with an $890,000 grant from Delta Air Lines Foundation to the University of Georgia, is intended to recognize individuals for "globally significant efforts that provide opportunities for greater understanding among nations and cultures."
The Delta Prize program is administered by two UGA faculty members: Gary Bertsch, Director of the Center for International Trade and Security, and Betty Jean Craige, Director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, who serve on the selection board with Adams. The Managing Director of the program is Lloyd Winstead.
Prominent UGA alumni serving on the board include William P. "Billy" Payne,
partner with Gleacher and Co., Atlanta; Charles Sanford, Jr., retired
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Bankers Trust Company,
New York; Pat Mitchell, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Museum of Television and Radio, New York, NY; Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Journalist; and the Honorable
Joe Frank Harris, former governor of Georgia and now Chairman of the
Harris Georgia Corporation, Cartersville. Former UGA president Charles
B. Knapp also serves on the board.
Other business and civic leaders on the board include
Anne Cox Chambers, Director of Cox Enterprises and
Chair of Atlanta Newspapers, Atlanta; John Clendenin,
former Chairman of the Board, Bellsouth Corporation;
Jane Wales, President and CEO of the World Affairs
Council of Northern California; Judy Woodruff, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, Arlington, Virginia; and
Gerald Grinstein, Chief Executive Officer,
Delta.
International members include Ambassador Kai Eide,
Norway's representative to NATO; Professor Ali Mazrui,
Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities, Institute
of Global Cultural Studies, State University of New
York - Binghamton; Sir Alister McIntyre, Chief Technical
Advisor for Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery;
Ambassador Roland Timerbaev, President of the Center
for Political Studies in Russia, Moscow; Ambassador
Jayantha Dhanapala, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General,
and Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the U.S., Sri Lanka; Norio Tsubokawa, Retired Managing Director,
YKK Corporation, Tokyo; and John Fentener van Vlissingen, Boron Management, The Netherlands. |
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