IMPMS Annual Function
Saturday, December 12th, 2009
FunAsia, Richardson Texas
Guest Speakers: Micheal Hamilton Morgan
(Author: Lost History)
FunAsia, Richardson Texas
Guest Speakers: Micheal Hamilton Morgan
(Author: Lost History)
Please see the details about the guest speaker below:
Award-winning former diplomat Michael Hamilton Morgan is both a novelist and nonfiction author. His previous book was Collision with History: the Search for John F. Kennedy’s PT 109, a book and tv documentary released by National Geographic and MSNBC in 2002. In 2001 he co-authored Graveyards of the Pacific, also published by National Geographic. On those books he collaborated with undersea explorer and Titanic discover Robert D. Ballard. Morgan’s 1991 international thriller The Twilight War (Dutton/Signet) was set in Eastern Europe, Central America and Washington. National Book Award winner John Casey called it "profound, canny, intelligent … a top echelon thriller."
Morgan is also founder and President of New Foundations for Peace (www.nfpeace.org), a nonprofit created to teach leadership skills to young people worldwide.
From 1990 to 2000 Morgan was director and senior consultant for Mobil Corporation’s international Pegasus Prize for Literature. Morgan was a panelist at the PEN World Congress in Prague in 1994. He has spoken at the World Economic Forum/Arab Business Council, the U.S. Treasury Department, Asia Society, Georgetown University, the University of Virginia, the Mohammed
bin Rashid Foundation in Dubai, Saudi Aramco headquarters and the American University in Sharjah.
Morgan has been interviewed by Al Jazeera, BBC World/Public Radio International, the CBS Evening News and many others worldwide. Michael Morgan has also written speeches for CEOs and executives (www.mhmorganinc.com). As a career diplomat from 1980-87, Morgan was Deputy Staff Director (1985-87) of the bipartisan White House commission overseeing the U.S. Information Agency and the Fulbright Scholarships. He accompanied delegations in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Cuba. Secretary of State Shultz gave him a Meritorious Honor Award in 1984.
Morgan has lived or worked on projects in more than 20 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas. He was an Echols Scholar at the University of Virginia, where he graduated with High Distinction in 1973.
Award-winning former diplomat Michael Hamilton Morgan is both a novelist and nonfiction author. His previous book was Collision with History: the Search for John F. Kennedy’s PT 109, a book and tv documentary released by National Geographic and MSNBC in 2002. In 2001 he co-authored Graveyards of the Pacific, also published by National Geographic. On those books he collaborated with undersea explorer and Titanic discover Robert D. Ballard. Morgan’s 1991 international thriller The Twilight War (Dutton/Signet) was set in Eastern Europe, Central America and Washington. National Book Award winner John Casey called it "profound, canny, intelligent … a top echelon thriller."
Morgan is also founder and President of New Foundations for Peace (www.nfpeace.org), a nonprofit created to teach leadership skills to young people worldwide.
From 1990 to 2000 Morgan was director and senior consultant for Mobil Corporation’s international Pegasus Prize for Literature. Morgan was a panelist at the PEN World Congress in Prague in 1994. He has spoken at the World Economic Forum/Arab Business Council, the U.S. Treasury Department, Asia Society, Georgetown University, the University of Virginia, the Mohammed
bin Rashid Foundation in Dubai, Saudi Aramco headquarters and the American University in Sharjah.
Morgan has been interviewed by Al Jazeera, BBC World/Public Radio International, the CBS Evening News and many others worldwide. Michael Morgan has also written speeches for CEOs and executives (www.mhmorganinc.com). As a career diplomat from 1980-87, Morgan was Deputy Staff Director (1985-87) of the bipartisan White House commission overseeing the U.S. Information Agency and the Fulbright Scholarships. He accompanied delegations in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Cuba. Secretary of State Shultz gave him a Meritorious Honor Award in 1984.
Morgan has lived or worked on projects in more than 20 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas. He was an Echols Scholar at the University of Virginia, where he graduated with High Distinction in 1973.