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Cyrus A. Ansary

Cyrus A. Ansary

Cyrus A. Ansary has an economics degree from American University in Washington, D.C., and a law degree from Columbia University in New York. Ansary was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of American University for almost ten years, after serving as a member of that board for eighteen years. He is now Chairman Emeritus. The university annually awards the Cyrus A. Ansary Medal to a civic or corporate leader selected by its Board of Trustees. In 2014, Mount Vernon awarded the Cyrus A. Ansary Prize for Courage and Character to President George H.W. Bush. Ansary was also a trustee of the Krupp Foundation in Essen, Germany, a member of the Woodrow Wilson Council in Washington, D.C., a trustee of the Washington Opera Society, and a trustee of the Wolf Trap Foundation in Vienna, Virginia. He was a member of the Life Guard Society of George Washington’s Mount Vernon, and is now an emeritus member. Ansary is a member of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., the Economic Club of New York, the National Association for Business Economics, the CFA Society of Washington, D.C., and the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the bars of Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Supreme Court. He has been listed for decades in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. To connect with Ansary, please visit his LinkedIn Profile and Facebook Page. George Washington: Dealmaker-In-Chief will be available on February 18, 2019 in Trade Paperback and eBook at bookstores nationwide and online retailers including Amazon. Cyrus is a regular contributor to the CEOWORLD magazine.
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What Do Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Oprah Winfrey Have in Common? A Little Help from George Washington

CEO AdvisoryCyrus A. Ansary
Steve Jobs, who put the iPhone in the pockets of millions of Americans, owed more to George Washington than he could have ever imagined. So do Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Multimedia Maven Oprah Winfrey, Mattel’s Ruth Handler, and countless other enterprising Americans who have been among the 1%. The American culture...