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AROUND THE QUADSKingdon To Receive 2007 Alexander Hamilton Award
Mark E. Kingdon ’71 Photo: Eileen Barroso 
Each fall, the Columbia College Alumni Association presents the Alexander Hamilton Award to an alumnus or faculty member for distinguished service and accomplishment in any field of endeavor. It is the highest honor the College bestows. The 2007 honoree will be Mark E. Kingdon ’71, a University trustee, Columbia Campaign co-chair, College Board of Visitors emeritus member and 2005 John Jay Award recipient. He will be presented with the award at a black-tie gala on Thursday, November 15, in Low Rotunda. Kingdon received a B.A. in economics and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, while serving as sports editor and features editor of Spectator. In 1998, he endowed the C. Lowell Harriss Professorship of Economics in honor of his undergraduate teacher and mentor. In 2006, along with several other alumni, Kingdon sponsored the Institute for Israeli and Jewish Studies and the Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi Chair in Israel and Jewish Studies. The president, chief portfolio manager and strategist of Kingdon Capital Management, a New York-based investment management firm that he founded in 1983, Kingdon’s career began after he earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1973. He was a pension fund administrator for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. until 1975, and then worked at Century Capital Associates for eight years. In 2003, Kingdon received the Institutional Investor/Alternative Investment News Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2006, he was honored by UJA-Federation Of New York’s Investment Management Division. Kingdon is on the boards of Harlem Children’s Zone, New York City Police Foundation and the Academy of Political Science. His personal interests include golf and yoga. Kingdon lives with his wife, Anla Cheng, 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. Lisa Palladino
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