FedEx’s Smith to receive Marshall Foundation Award
FedEx chief Fred Smith will receive the 2010 George C. Marshall Foundation Award later this month. The Marshall Foundation will honour Smith for his success in “building a company that has changed business around the world and for the generous use of FedEx resources to provide humanitarian assistance to countries and regions in need”, a spokesman said.
Smith will collect his award on November 16 at American Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Past recipients of the Marshall Foundation Award have included Robert Gates, current secretary of defense; former president George H.W. Bush, general Colin Powell, and David Rockefeller, among others.
Smith is responsible for providing strategic direction for FedEx Corporation. More than 285,000 FedEx team members worldwide deliver more than 8m shipments each business day to 220 countries and territories around the globe.
Smith has also served on the boards of several large public companies and the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Mayo Foundation Boards. He was formerly chairman of the Board of Governors for the International Air Transport Association and the US Air Transport Association.
He is a member of the Business Roundtable, is a board member for the Council on Foreign Relations and is co-chairman of the Energy Security Leadership Council. He has served as chairman of the US-China Business Council and is the current chairman of the French-American Business Council.
