Elon Law professor John Alexander and David Gergen, chair of the Elon University School of Law advisory board, were involved in the selection process for the 2011 "Top American Leaders" awards.
The awards are a first time collaboration between the Washington Post’s On Leadership section and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, for which Gergen serves as director.
Gergen co-chaired the selection committee for the awards with Warren Bennis of the University of Southern California.
Alexander, Elon Law’s distinguished leadership coach-in-residence, served as the 2007-2008 Isabella Cannon Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership at Elon University and is former president of the Center for Creative Leadership.
One of the seven honorees, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, delivered the keynote address at Elon University’s 2010 Convocation for Honors.
Others selected as Top American Leaders include: Sheila Bair, chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from 2006 until 2011; Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey; Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas; Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Michael Kaiser, president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; and Ahmed Zewail, a Nobel Prize winner and a professor of chemistry and physics at the California Institute of Technology.
Click here for the Washington Post report on “Top American Leaders.”