Gregorian, Vartan

Vartan Gregorian is the twelfth president of Carnegie Corporation of New York. Previously, he served for nine years as president of Brown University and as president of the New York Public Library. Dr. Gregorian is the author of "The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan: Politics of Reform and Modernization, 1880-1946". His academic honors include some fifty honorary degrees. In 1998, President Clinton awarded him the National Humanities Medal.