The first recipient of the Anna Lindh Professorship is Samantha Power, a journalist and professor of public policy at the Kennedy School who was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction in 2003 for her book entitled A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. The appointment was officially announced by David T. Ellwood, Dean of the Kennedy School of Government, in a ceremony on September 6, 2006, attended by Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Jan Eliasson."With her commitment to human rights and her epoch-making work on genocide, Samantha Power will be a strong and worthy first holder of the Anna Lindh Professorship at Harvard University. By this appointment, Harvard is securing Anna Lindh's memory and position in international politics," said Eliasson.“Anna Lindh has been an inspiration to me and to others as we fight to secure basic human rights and liberties for peoples in countries throughout the world,” said Power. “Her leadership on behalf of international dialogue and cooperation serves as a model for those of us who seek greater regard for international law and greater protections for innocents caught in the midst of ethnic violence and war.”Anna Lindh became Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1998 and worked tirelessly to strengthen international cooperation through the European Union and the United Nations before being assassinated in September 2003.The professorship has been actively supported by Prime Minister Göran Persson, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Anna Lindh's family, the Anna Lindh Memorial Fund and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. It is largely financed by funds from the business sector and private foundations. The largest contribution, $1 million, was made by the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson. Other contributors include the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, Ambassador Lyndon Olson Jr. and Dr. S. Alan Counter.For the official Foreign Ministry press release: www.sweden.gov.seFor additional information: www.ksg.harvard.edu