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On October 25, CED’s annual Distinguished Leadership Awards Celebration will honor business leaders who have answered the call for leadership in their companies and the communities in which they operate and demonstrated exemplary Leadership in Challenging Times.
Highlighting the outstanding work of our Awardees offers the business community strong examples they can follow, and it pays tribute to the legacy of CED’s founders, America’s leading CEOs who, during WWII, heeded the call to public service to guide the transition from a wartime economy to a prosperous peacetime economy. Our honorees and their introducers are highlighted below, with a special thank you to our sponsors. View the Previous Awards Winners
Watch the 2020 Awards Celebration | View the 2020 Awards Program
View our 2020 Honorees’ discussion in our webcast series on Leadership in Challenging Times.
Click here to see photos from the 2019 Awards Dinner.
Where
The Pierre Hotel, New York City
Event Start Time
October 25, 2021, 6:00 PM
Event End Time
October 25, 2021, 9:00 PM
2021 Distinguished Leadership Honorees
Founder, Chairman, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer
Ariel Investments
Introduced By:
President
Barack Obama Foundation;
Senior Distinguished Fellow
The University of Chicago Law School
Introduced By:
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Noubar Afeyan
Founder and CEO
Flagship Pioneering
Founder and Chairman
Moderna
Introduced By:
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Merck & Co., Inc.
For sponsorship information, please contact Brian Teagle at brian.teagle@conference-board.org.
2021 AWARDS SPONSORS













