2001-01-18 Foster Named to Wilson International Center for Scholars
Press Secretary
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release January 18, 2001
PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES JOHN FOSTER AS A MEMBER OF
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR
SCHOLARS
President Clinton today announced his intent to appoint John H.
Foster to serve as a member of the Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars.
Mr. Foster, of Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, is founder and managing
partner of Foster Management Company, an investment advisory firm. Mr.
Foster was founder and Chairman of the board of NovaCare, Inc. He is a
former member of the board and of the executive committee of Avon, Inc.,
a board member of Corning Inc., and the New York International Festival
of the Arts. He serves as a trustee of the Hospital for Special Surgery
in New York. He is on the council of the Woodrow Wilson Center and on
the Board of Overseers for The Amos Tuck School of Administration at
Dartmouth College. Mr. Foster also serves on the Dean's Council of the
Harvard School of Public Health. In 1995, he established the John H.
Foster Professorship of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard
School of Public Health. In 1997, he established the John H. Foster
Center for Private Equity at the Amos Tuck School of Administration at
Dartmouth College. Mr. Foster received a B.A. from Williams College
and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School.
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is established
within the Smithsonian Institution. The Center fosters scholarship and
dialogue in the humanities and social sciences by bringing Fellows to
Washington, encouraging discourse, and publishing the results of their
activities.
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