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AROUND THE QUADSKingdon To Receive Hamilton AwardUniversity Trustee, Columbia Campaign co-chair, College Board of Visitors emeritus member and 2005 John Jay Award recipient Mark E. Kingdon ’71 will be presented with the 2007 Alexander Hamilton Award at a black-tie gala on Thursday, November 15, in Low Rotunda. 
Mark E. Kingdon ’71 
Each fall, the Columbia College Alumni Association presents the medal to an alumnus or faculty member for distinguished service and accomplishment in any field of endeavor. It is the highest honor the College bestows. Born in Brooklyn, Kingdon received a B.A. in economics and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the College, where he was sports and features editor of Spectator. In 1998, he endowed the C. Lowell Harriss Professorship of Economics in honor of his undergraduate teacher and mentor. After earning an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1973, Kingdon was a pension fund administrator for AT&T until 1975. He then worked at Century Capital Associates for eight years before founding Kingdon Capital Management, a New York-based investment management firm, in 1983. In 2003, Kingdon received the Institutional Investor/Alternative Investment News Lifetime Achievement Award. Kingdon is on the boards of Harlem Children’s Zone, New York City Police Foundation and the Academy of Political Science and is an ex officio member of the advisory board of Facing History and Ourselves. He is a third-degree black belt in tae kwon do and lives with his wife, Anla Cheng Kingdon, daughter, Jessica ’09, and son, Jason, in New York City. For more information on the Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner, please contact Shelley Grunfeld, alumni office manager of special events: 212-870-2743 or rg329@columbia.edu.
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