The University of Utah Alumni Association presented its Distinguished Alumnus Award to Fred Kempe, Atlantic Council president and CEO, recognizing Kempe’s three-decade career as a journalist, author and foreign policy think-tank executive. The association presented the award February 20.
Kempe, a Utah native who graduated from the university in 1976, has led the Atlantic Council since 2006, following a twenty-five year career as correspondent, columnist and editor at The Wall Street Journal. He previously won the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism’s top alumni achievement award.