Dean of the Stern School of Business Peter Henry, has been awarded the Foreign Policy Association Medal. Dean Henry was given the award during the Foreign Policy Association’s annual Financial Services Dinner. The Medal is the highest honor bestowed by the organization. The Foreign Policy Association awards medals annually to leading practitioners of foreign policy and to academics who research and teach in the area of U.S. foreign policy.
Henry became dean of the Stern School of Business in January 2010. Before coming to Stern, he was the Konosuke Matushita Professor of International Economics at Stanford University. His expertise are in the areas of emerging markets and international finance. He is a regular speaker at the IMF and has testified before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and before other various ambassadors to the United Nations. Henry has also served as a macroeconomic advisor to the governments of Ghana and Jamaica.
The Foreign Policy Association was founded in 1918. It was established to promote a broad public awareness, understanding and informed opinion of American foreign policy and global issues and to encourage citizens to participate in the foreign policy process.
In addition to Dean Henry, medals were also awarded to Peter G. Petersen, Chairman of Peter G. Petersen Foundation and Mark E. Kingdon, CEO of Kingdon Capital Management, LLC. Past winners of the FPA medal include former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; William C. Dudley, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and Mo Ibrahim, Founder of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.