2007 Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal Recipient

A leading advocate for improving education in the United States and abroad, Craig R. Barrett became chairman of the Board of Intel Corporation in 2005, after having served as president and then chief executive officer. Dr. Barrett received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in materials science from Stanford University. He was an associate professor in the university’s Materials Science and Engineering Department before taking a position with Intel in 1974. Dr. Barrett was a Fulbright scholar in 1972 at the Danish Technical University. He is a strong proponent of using technology to raise social and economic standards globally and chairs the United Nations’ Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development. He also serves on the President’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations and is a member of the American Health Information Community, the Committee on Scientific Communication and National Security, and the National Infrastructure Advisory Council. He chairs the National Academy of Engineering and is co-chairman of the Business Coalition for Excellence in Education and of the National Innovation Initiative Leadership Council. He serves on the U.S. Council for International Business Board of Trustees and is on the boards of the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association, the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Achieve, TechNet, and the National Forest Foundation.