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57th Ann ual Re po rt Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission Year ending 30 September 2010 Fifty Seventh Annual Report of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission for the year ending 30 September 2010 Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to section 2(6) of Marshall Aid Commemoration Act March 2011 London: The Stationery Office £8.50 Fifty Seventh Annual Report: Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission © Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission (2011) The text of this document (this excludes, where present, the Royal Arms and all departmental and agency logos) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium providing that it is reproduced accurately and not in a misleading context. The material must be acknowledged as Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission copyright and the document title specified. Where third party material has been identified, permission from the respective copyright holder must be sought. Any enquiries regarding this publication should be sent to us at [email protected] This publication is also available on http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/ ISBN: 9780108510359 Printed in the UK for The Stationery Office Limited on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office ID: 2418428 03/10 Printed on paper containing 75% recycled fibre content minimum. 4 Fifty Seventh Annual Report: Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission Contents Introduction 6 Welcome from the MACC Chair Dr Frances Dow 6 Meetings and MACC Membership 7 Scholars in Britain 2009/2010 8 Scholars Graduating in 2010 10 Scholars’ Experience 10 Marshall Events 12 Marshall Alumni 14 Selection of 2010 Marshall Scholars 15 Selection and Placement Policy 20 New Partnership Scholarships 20 Marshall Sherfield Fellowships 20 Marshall Scholarship Stipends 21 Secretariat 21 Access to Information 21 Expenditure 21 Membership of the MACC and Committees 22 Degree Results 25 Summary Accounts 27 5 Fifty Seventh Annual Report: Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission The Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission’s report to Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. Pursuant to Section 2(6) of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Act 1953, we have the honour to submit the report of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission for the year ending 30 September 2010. WELCOME FROM DR FRANCES DOW I am proud to report The Commission selected, for the first time in 2010, five another year of one-year Marshall Scholarships, which will run alongside the achievement. Once again more traditional two-year Scholarships. We look forward to Marshall Scholars have the first Scholars arriving in September 2010. demonstrated that they are leaders, thinkers and I would also like to make special mention of the retiring actors in all spheres both Chair of the Marshall Commission’s San Francisco Selection public and private. Ten Committee, Mr Robert (Bob) P Gray, who was awarded an Marshall Scholars are honorary OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list 2010. currently serving in the The OBE was awarded for Mr Gray’s services to the Marshall Executive Branch of the Scholarship Programme in the Pacific Northwest and in the Dr Frances Dow US Government in US nationally. The Commission offers its warmest departments ranging from congratulations to Mr Gray for this well-deserved recognition the Executive Office of the President, to the Department of of his immensely valuable contribution to the Marshall State, Department of Defense and others.Among recent Scholarships. Mr Gray was a 1971 Marshall Scholar who honours and awards, 1994 Marshall Scholar, Ahilan spent his Scholarship at the University of Edinburgh reading Arulanantham, received the 2010 Arthur C. Helton Human for a degree in English Language and Literature. Rights Award and 2000 Marshall Scholar, Aaron Einbond was Finally, as ever, may I thank the Foreign and Commonwealth awarded the Staubach Honorarium in composition. Office and its representatives whose support and As Chair of the Commission I was delighted to participate in involvement have been so crucial to the Marshall programme alumni events organised by the Association of Marshall as we strive to play our part in strengthening UK-US Scholars. In November 2009 a highly successful two-day relations. I would also like to thank the Ambassador’s reunion and symposium on global development and energy Advisory Committee, the British Embassy and Consulates consumption was held at the world renowned California in the US and our Regional Selection Committees for another Institute of Technology, in which alumni and guests were year of wonderful collaboration. addressed by Steve Koonin, Under Secretary of Energy and Dr Frances Dow Science at the US Department of Energy. In June 2010 along Chair with current Marshall Scholars studying in Oxford I was Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission privileged to meet 1959 Scholar US Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer on the occasion of his receiving the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law. 6 Fifty Seventh Annual Report: Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission THE MARSHALL AID COMMEMORATION MEETINGS AND MACC MEMBERSHIP COMMISSION Regular business meetings of the MACC were held on The Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission Act was 5 October 2009, 25 January 2010 and 19 April 2010. The passed by the British Parliament in 1953 in order to MACC’s Education, Finance and Audit and Risk Management express gratitude to the American people for the post-war (ARM) Committees met on several occasions under the support and assistance conceived by Secretary of State respective chairmanship of Dr Frances Dow (Former Vice- George C Marshall, now known as the Marshall Plan. The Principal, University of Edinburgh), Professor David Eastwood Parliamentary Act created postgraduate Scholarships in the (Vice-Chancellor, University of Birmingham), Mr James Ross United Kingdom for American students with the potential to (Former Deputy Chairman, National Grid plc) and Mr Graham excel in their chosen fields of study and future careers. As Benson (former MACC Commissioner). The Ambassador’s alumni of British Universities and members of the community Advisory Council met in Washington on 7 December 2009, during their stay in Britain, Marshall Scholars create lasting under the chairmanship of HM Ambassador and the Chair of bridges between the United States and the United Kingdom the MACC. Dr John Hughes attended as the MACC’s and become advocates for greater depth and breadth of representative. interaction, co-operation and mutual understanding between A full list of current MACC members follow and further details the two countries. They also participate in activities which can be found at the end of this Report (page 22) which make them effective spokespeople for the best in British includes a note of their affiliation with the Education, Finance society and education and once they have completed their and ARM Committees. studies, continue to support the furtherance of international co-operation in the spirit of the Marshall Plan. Dr Frances Dow (Chair) Each year up to 40 Marshall Scholarships are awarded, some Professor Bob Deacon in partnership with outstanding British Universities. This Professor Richard Dendy unique testament of gratitude plays a vital role in developing a constituency for Britain in the United States of America. Mrs Diane Flynn The programme is funded by HM Government through the Dr John Hughes (Deputy Chair) Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and is administered Dr Ruth Kosmin in Britain by the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission and in the United States by the British Embassy in Mrs Carol Madison Graham Washington DC, and the Consulates-General in Atlanta, Mr Simon Morris Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. HRH Prince of Wales is Honorary Patron of the Professor Eric Thomas Association of Marshall Scholars. Professor Nigel Thrift In addition full details of the membership of the Ambassador’s Advisory Council and of the Regional Committees, as at date of the selection interviews for the 2010 awards, are given on page 22 of this report. Secretary of State George C Marshall Sir Peter Ricketts welcomes the 2009 Marshall Scholars 7 Fifty Seventh Annual Report: Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission SCHOLARS IN BRITAIN 2009/2010 The Scholars were funded as follows: At the start of the academic year 2009/2010, 82 Marshall 53 fully funded by the MACC Scholars were in residence at British universities. This number was made up of six 2007 Scholars, who were completing a Two Scholars were fully funded by external bodies as follows: third year, 36 2008 Scholars and another 40 Scholars who • one Scholar was supported on the Walter and had taken up their awards in 2009. The group comprised 48 Leonore Annenberg Marshall Scholarship funded by men and 34 women. Ten of the Scholars had dependents 7 of an endowment from the Annenberg Foundation; whom were in residence in the UK. • one Scholar was supported on the BSUF Marshall Scholarship funded by the British Schools and The distribution of the awards was as follows: 25 at Oxford; 16 Universities Fund (BSUF). at Cambridge; 23 at the University of London (six at the London School of Economics and Political Science; four each 22 Scholars were jointly funded on Partnership Scholarships: at the School of Oriental and African Studies and King’s College London; three each at University College London and • one Scholar supported on the Birmingham Marshall the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; one each Scholarship at Courtauld Institute of Art, Queen Mary University of London • one Scholar supported on the Caius Marshall and the Royal Academy of Music), three at Imperial College Scholarship • one Scholar supported on the Cardiff Marshall London and two each at Cardiff University, the University of Scholarship Edinburgh, Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the • one Scholar supported on the Courtauld Marshall University of St Andrews; and one each at Cranfield University, Scholarship the Royal College of Music and the Universities of Birmingham, • two Scholars supported on the Edinburgh Marshall Essex, Nottingham, Sheffield and Sussex.