WASHINGTON
, SEPT. 22, 2009--The Heritage
Foundation has added two new members to its board of trustees,
President Edwin Feulner announced today.
Abby Moffat and Robert Pennington join a group of 21 other
successful business leaders, ambassadors and policymakers on the
Heritage board.
Moffat, of Bethesda, Md., has served on the boards of several
non-profit organizations. These include the Intercollegiate Studies
Institute, Radio America, the National Foundation for Teaching
Entrepreneurship, the Center for Security Policy, the Institute of
World Politics, and is treasurer of the Atlas Economic Research
Foundation.
She also chairs the Board of Trustees of the Media Research
Center. She holds professional memberships with The Philanthropy
Roundtable and The Capital Speakers Group.
Pennington, of Darien, Conn., was an Overseer at Whitman College
in Walla Walla, Wash., his alma mater. He was an Executive Vice
President at Dean Witter Reynolds in the early 1980s before he
became President of Intercapital Investment Management in New York
City. In 1985, he became President and Director of Capital Guardian
Trust Co.
"We're proud to have Abby and Bob join our board," said Feulner,
himself a trustee. "Each brings a different background to the job,
but both share our commitment to help build an America where
freedom, opportunity, prosperityandcivilsociety flourish."
The Heritage Foundation is the nation's most broadly supported
public policy research institute, with more than 513,000
individual, foundation and corporate donors. Heritage, founded in
February 1973, has a staff of 244 and an annual expense budget of
more than $60 million.