Elon Law professor John Alexander and David Gergen, chair of the Ʒ 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 section and the 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 Ʒ 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 .
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.
for the Washington Post report on “Top American Leaders.”