Google CEO Eric Schmidt is new New America Foundation Chairman


GOOGLE CEO ERIC SCHMIDT IS NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION CHAIRMAN
[SOURCE: New America Foundation]
The New America Foundation, a nonpartisan ten-year-old think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C., announced the appointment of Dr. Eric Schmidt, the chairman and chief executive of Google, Inc., as the new chairman of New America's Board of Directors. Dr. Schmidt, who has been a member of the New America board since the policy institute's founding, will succeed James Fallows, the author and national correspondent of The Atlantic. Fallows will remain on New America's board after the transition, which will take place on June 1st; Fallows was New America's founding board chairman. Dr. Schmidt's election to the chairmanship coincides with the arrival at New America of a new president and chief executive, the journalist Steve Coll, a staff writer at The New Yorker and former managing editor of The Washington Post who has twice received the Pulitzer Prize. Coll succeeded New America founder Ted Halstead last September; Halstead remains a New America board member.
http://www.newamerica.net/pressroom/2008/google_ceo_eric_schmidt_appointed_chairman_new_america_foundations_board_directors

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