Global Fairness Initiative Awards
Susan Berresford, former president of the Ford Foundation, was one of three women receiving the 2013 Fairness Award of the Global Fairness Initiative at a ceremony October 13 in Washington, D.C.
Shep Forman, LAFF’s president, who was retiring from its board after serving as a member since the Initiative’s inception 10 years ago, introduced a video praising the leadership of GFI’s president, Karen Tramantano.
Berresford was Ford’s president from 1996 to 2007 and now is a philanthropy consultant. She had been with the Foundation since 1970, serving first as a research assistant in the Division of National Affairs, then as a program officer in charge of women’s programs, vice president for worldwide programming and executive vice president and chief operating officer.
She now is on the board of several organizations, chairs United States Artists, Inc. and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The other recipients of the awards from the Initiative, whose founding chair is former President Bill Clinton, are Tarja Halonen, president of Finland, and Zeinab Al-Momani, president of the Specific Union for Women Farmers in Jordan.
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