Home > Political notes > Archives > 2008 > October > 07 > Entry
Creative Leaders lecture follows Palin visit
A reader of this blog pointed out another noteworthy speech taking place on campus this week in addition to Sarah Palin’s.
Former CNN and Time Magazine executive Walter Isaacson is scheduled to speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Wright Auditorium on “Creative Leaders Who Have Shaped Our World.”
His visit is part of the Thomas Harriot College of Arts & Sciences Voyages of Discovery lecture series.
Isaacson is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), and Kissinger: A Biography (1992) and is the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986).
He is president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue. He is former chairman and CEO of CNN and the editor of Time Magazine,
He was born on May 20, 1952, in New Orleans. He is a graduate of Harvard College and of Pembroke College of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He began his career at the Sunday Times of London and then the New Orleans Times-Picayune/States.
Comments