Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte, an attorney and president emeritus of Florida State University in the United States, has been chosen by The Rotary Foundation Trustees as the recipient of the 2010-11 Global Alumni Service to Humanity Award.
D'Alemberte, who has received numerous honors for his legal work and university leadership, is a champion of pro bono legal service. A former president of the American Bar Association, he helped create its Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative, which in the 1990s helped newly emerging democracies in those regions with constitutional, legal, and institutional reforms.
As a 1958-59 Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar, D'Alemberte studied at the London School of Economics. He will receive the award on 24 May at the 2011 RI Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
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