Lynette Lithgow Internship Fund

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Lynette Lithgow Lynette Lithgow was born in Trinidad but spent
most of her life in the United Kingdom. Much of her career was with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), having presented television news programs for the BBC regionally, nationally and internationally. She also worked for Granada Television in Manchester and for Tyne-Tees Television in Newcastle. Her overseas postings were with Radio Television Brunei and with CNBC Asia, based in Singapore, where she was editorial training manager and senior anchor.

Luminaries who faced her nightly questioning
included President Kim of South Korea, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia, Singapore Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, former Indonesian President B. J. Habibie, New Zealand former Prime Minister Jenny Shipley, U. S. Commerce Secretary William Daley, Trade Secretary Charlene Barshefsky, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the deposed Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, in an exclusive interview only hours after he was sacked.

She is the author of Special Blend: Fusion Management from Asia and the West, which explores the impact of culture and history on Asian management styles.

Recipients

2007	Massimiliano Santini The Business Daily (Kenya) Massimiliano Santini graduated from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in 1998 with a degree in economics. Later he worked as a financial analyst in London, New York, and Rome with the World Food Programme of the United Nations. As a filmmaker, Santini has produced and edited several documentary films focusing on social issues. His work in print journalism includes a stint as a foreign correspondent for Next Exit, a monthly news magazine published in Italy. He is a 2008 master in public administration in international development candidate at the Kennedy School.
2006	Kaj Larsen Current TV Kaj Larsen is a 2007 master in public policy candidate at the Kennedy School, where his coursework emphasized political advocacy leadership and international security policy. Larsen has a background in media and politics. He is an award winning journalist who has traveled to war zones around the world. He has reported on conflicts in places such as Afghanistan, Cambodia, and Somalia. Prior to his time at Harvard, Kaj was a naval officer who served five years as a US Navy SEAL. Click here to view Larsen's report on waterboarding for Current TV.
2005	James Crabtree The Economist (U.K.) James Crabtree, who attended the Kennedy School as a Fulbright scholar, graduated in 2006 with a master in public policy degree. Among other web ventures, Crabtree founded voxpolitics.com, an online think tank examining e-democracy. While at the Kennedy School, Crabtree helped develop the Digital Futures project at the Institute of Public Policy Research.