Harvard Club of Washington, DC

2013 Public Service Award Honoring Robert Reischauer

$75. members and their guests/$100. nonmembers All are welcome to attend.

2013 Public Service Award Honoring Robert Reischauer

This event is the Harvard Club's flagship event of the year - if you can join us for one event in 2013, please join us on Thursday, November 21 at the University Club for a lovely luncheon.

The Harvard Club is pleased to honor Robert Reischauer AB '63 Harvard, MIA '66, PhD '71, Columbia for his deep commitment to public service as demonstrated by his service with the Harvard Board of Overseers and Harvard Corporation and his work with Urban Institute, the Brookings Institution, and the Congressional Budget Office. Having served from 2000 to 2012 as president of the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan economic and social policy research organization in Washington, DC, Bob Reischauer is now Distinguished Institute Fellow and president emeritus. From 1989 to 1995, he was director of the Congressional Budget Office. Before and after his tenure as CBO director, he was a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program of the Brookings Institution. A member of the Institute of Medicine, he is a recognized policy expert on the federal budget, Medicare, Social Security, poverty, and welfare, and is past vice chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory
Commission. He served a six-year term on Harvard's Board of Overseers before joining the Harvard Corporation in 2002. He became the Corporation's senior fellow on July 1, 2010. The Harvard Corporation is known formally as the President and Fellows of Harvard College, and is the oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere. It is the smaller of Harvard’s two governing boards; the other being the Board of Overseers. 

The Harvard Club of Washington, D.C. first awarded its Public Service Award (PSA) in 2000, in memory of the late Elliot L. Richardson, ’40, L.L.B. ’47, L.L.D. ’72, someone who exemplified public service. The award is presented annually to an individual who has attended or been affiliated with Harvard University and who has made significant contributions to the public good, and whose service has at least in part been focused on the Washington, D.C. area.

While current or former elected officials have been among those considered as potential recipients of the PSA, the “public good” is not limited to government service. The Harvard Club has awarded the PSA to individuals whose contributions are in areas as diverse as social entrepreneurism, the arts, and journalism.

Over the years, recipients of the PSA have included James R. Schlesinger, Earl A. “Rusty” Powell III, Alice Rivlin, Benjamin Bradlee, The Honorable Anthony A. Williams, Senator Paul Sarbanes, William T. Coleman, Jr., Bill Drayton, Donald Graham, The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Marvin Kalb,Peter Edelman, and Al Kamen.  

2013 Public Service Award Honoring Robert Reischauer