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ATLANTA….H. Inman Allen, chairman of the Ivan Allen Company, has been appointed chair of the Carter Center's Board of Councilors for 2012. The board is comprised of 234 members, who serve as a leadership advisory group that promotes understanding among opinion leaders and the broader community of The Carter Center and its activities.
"Inman has demonstrated a sincere commitment to our mission since he joined the Board of Councilors in 1994," Carter Center President and CEO John Hardman said. "We look forward to working even more closely with him in this new leadership role."
As Board of Councilors chair for 2012, he will follow Ann Cramer, director for IBM Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs for the Americas, and past chair Kenneth G. Byers, Jr., president of Byers Engineering Company. Mr. Allen's late brother, Ivan Allen III, was a co-founder and chair of the Board of Councilors.
Mr. Allen is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has served on the boards of the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority, Grady Hospital Foundation, Woodruff Arts Center, The Atlanta Historical Society, Egleston Children's Hospital, Berry College, Atlanta College of Art, Leadership Georgia and Central Atlanta Progress.
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