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About Carnegie Corporation
David Hamburg
President Emeritus
David Hamburg is
president emeritus at Carnegie Corporation of New York, where he served
as the Corporation's eleventh president from 1982 to 1997. Under his
leadership the work of the Corporation focused on education and healthy
development of children and youth, human resources in developing countries
and international security issues. He established a number of task
forces on education and preventing conflict which produced seminal
research and policy analysis and which will continue to influence
the work in these fields in the future. A
medical doctor, Hamburg had a long history of leadership in the research,
medical and psychiatric fields before his transition from a trustee
of Carnegie to its president. He was chief, adult psychiatry branch,
National Institutes of Health, from 1958 to 1961; professor and chairman
of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford
University from 1961 to 1972; Reed-Hodgson Professor of Human Biology
at Stanford University from 1972 to 1976; president of the Institute
of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 1975-1980; and director
of the division of health policy research and education and John D.
MacArthur Professor of Health Policy at Harvard University, 1980-1983.
He served as president and then chairman of the board (1984-1986)
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Hamburg
was a member of the United States Defense Policy Board with Secretary
of Defense William Perry and cochair with former Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.
He is a member of President Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science
and Technology and a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School's
department of social medicine. He was the founder of the Carnegie
Commission on Science, Technology and Government. Hamburg
received both his A.B. and M.D. degrees from Indiana University. He
has received numerous honorary degrees during his career as well as
the American Psychiatric Association's Distinguished Service Award
in 1991, the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House in 1996,
the International Peace Academy's 25th Anniversary Special Award in
1996, the Achievement in Children and Public Policy Award from the
Society for Research in Child Development in 1997, and the National
Academy of Sciences' Public Welfare Medal in 1998.
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