Vartan Gregorian, President of the Carnegie Corporation, delivered the Malloy Lecture in April. Gregorian is the twelfth president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, a grant-making institution founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. Gregorian served as president of Brown University and from 1981 – 1989 served as president of the New York Public Library.

Gregorian is also the author of The Road To Home: My Life And Times, Islam: A Mosaic, Not A Monolith, and The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan, 1880-1946.  A Phi Beta Kappa and a Ford Foundation Foreign Area Training Fellow, he is a recipient of numerous fellowships, including those from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council and the American Philosophical Society.  He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.