| Other author/creator | Foster, Badi G., 1942- interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Billingsley, Amy Tate, 1936- interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Stearns, Scott, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title |
History Makers video oral history with Badi Foster |
| Portion of title |
Badi Foster |
| Abstract |
Academic administrator and nonprofit chief executive Badi G. Foster was born on September 29, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. He earned his B.A. degree in international relations from the University of Denver and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Princeton University. From 1973 until 1982, Foster worked for Harvard University, and from 1982 to 1993, for Aetna Life and Casualty. In 1994, he founded and became president and CEO of Transport America. Returning to academia, he was hired as director of the Lincoln Filene Center for Citizenship and Public Affairs at Tufts University in 1998. In 2000, he was appointed president and CEO of the Phelps-Stokes Fund. In 2014, he became a fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University's Hutchins Center; and, a visiting scholar at Northwestern University's Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies. His works on politics and cultural affairs have been widely published. |
| Credits | Videographer, Scott Stearns. |
| Performer |
Amy Billingsley, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2003 January 25. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2003.021 HistoryMakers |
