Annual Dinner 2003
Honoring Allan H. Meltzer
Wednesday, February 26, 2003 | 6:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
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About This Event

At AEI's annual dinner, President Bush delivered a historic address on the need for a new government in Iraq and the role it could play in spreading democracy in the Middle East.

Allan H. Meltzer received AEI's first Irving Kristol Award at the dinner. Meltzer is known for pioneering academic work in monetary policy, political theory, and economic history; his many practical contributions to improved economic policy; and his devotion to individual liberty and government reform.

The Irving Kristol Lecture is intended to illuminate central issues of public policy in contemporary America. The lecturer, selected by AEI's Council of Academic Advisers, is an eminent thinker who has made notable intellectual or practical contributions to improved public policy and social welfare.

The Irving Kristol Lecture is delivered at the AEI annual dinner in Washington.

The Irving Kristol Award replaces the Francis Boyer Award, AEI's highest annual award for the past twenty-five years. Named for a distinguished chief executive of SmithKline in the 1940s and 1950s, the Boyer Award was first conferred in 1977, on former president Gerald R. Ford. Boyer Award recipients have included prominent statesmen, intellectuals, jurists, educators, and executives-among them, in 1991, Irving Kristol.

Past Award Recipients

1977 Gerald R. Ford
1978 Arthur F. Burns
1979 Paul Johnson
1980 William J. Baroody, Sr.
1981 Henry A. Kissinger
1982 Hanna Holborn Gray
1983 Sir Alan Walters
1984 Robert H. Bork
1985 Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
1986 David Packard
1987 Paul A. Volcker
1988 Ronald W. Reagan		 1989 Antonin Scalia
1990 Thomas Sowell
1991 Irving Kristol
1993 Richard B. Cheney
1994 Carlos Salinas de Gortari
1995 George F. Will
1996 Alan Greenspan
1997 James Q. Wilson
1999 Michael Novak
2000 Christopher DeMuth
2001 Clarence Thomas
2002 Norman Podhoretz

AEI Participants

 

Christopher
DeMuth
  • Christopher DeMuth was president of AEI from December 1986 through December 2008. Previously, he was administrator for information and regulatory affairs in the Office of Management and Budget and executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief in the Reagan administration; taught economics, law, and regulatory policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; practiced regulatory, antitrust, and general corporate law; and worked on urban and environmental policy in the Nixon White House.

     

  • Phone: 2028625895
    Email: cdemuth@aei.org

  • Assistant Info

    Name: Keriann Hopkins
    Phone: 2028625897
    Email: keriann.hopkins@aei.org
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Irving
Kristol (1920-2009)
  • Irving Kristol is widely considered to be the founder of American neoconservatism. He was the managing editor of Commentary magazine from 1947 to 1952 and the cofounder of the U.K.-based Encounter. After eight years as the executive vice president of Basic Books, Mr. Kristol became a professor of social thought at the New York University Graduate School of Business. In July 2002, President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Allan H.
Meltzer
  • Allan H. Meltzer is the Allan H. Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of History of the Federal Reserve, Volume I: 1913-1951 (University of Chicago Press, 2002), a definitive research work on the Federal Reserve System. He has been a member of the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board, an acting member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and a consultant to the U.S. Treasury Department and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In 1999 and 2000, he served as the chairman of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, which was appointed by Congress to review the role of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and other institutions. The author of several books and numerous papers on economic theory and policy, Mr. Meltzer is also a founder of the Shadow Open Market Committee.
  • Phone: 4122682282
    Email: ameltzer@aei.org
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