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11-743: In 2007, the Northcote Parkinson Fund's name was changed to The Train Foundation in recognition of the contributions of the family of investment advisor John Train , the fund's primary donor. In 2022, the board of trustees consisted of seven members: Since 2000, the foundation has awarded the Civil Courage Prize one or two activists each year. The prize comes with a $ 25,000 honorarium. Nominations are accepted from international non-governmental organizations, while unsolicited nominations are discouraged. The award ceremony

22-720: A Cru Bourgeois wine producer in Lamarque, Gironde in France. He was chairman of the Montrose Group , investment advisers and tax accountants, and was a director of a major emerging markets mutual fund . He was the founder-chairman of the Train Foundation, which since 2000 has annually awarded the Civil Courage Prize for "steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk." The Prize was inspired by

33-633: Is held in New York City or London in October of each year. Keynote speakers have included British historian Michael Howard , US journalist Jon Meacham , British Home Secretary Douglas Hurd , and Chilean President Michelle Bachelet . Seven posthumous award winners have also been named, ranging from Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg , who worked to save the lives of Hungarian Jews during World War II , to Indonesian human rights activist Munir Said Thalib , assassinated in 2004. In 2004 and 2005,

44-1102: The American University in Bulgaria . Train was a descendant of an old New England family, he was a cousin of the late United States Senator Claiborne Pell , chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , and of Russell E. Train , head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency under Richard Nixon and a founding trustee/former chairman of the World Wildlife Fund . John Train's siblings include ambassadors, military officers and other officials. Train married Maria Teresa Cini di Pianzano; they had two daughters and later divorced. In 1977, he married Francie Cheston. and had two more daughters. One of his children became an active member of his firm. Another daughter

55-680: The Italian government for humanitarian work, and was an officer of the (British) Order of St. John . In 1980, he helped to establish the Afghanistan Relief Committee to provide medicine and food to the victims of the Soviet invasion, serving first as its treasurer and later as president. The ARC merged with the International Rescue Committee , whose board he joined. He was an original trustee of

66-599: The Foundation also awarded "Certificates of Distinction in Civil Courage" to selected prize finalists. The certificates included honorariums of $ 1,000 apiece. John Train (investment advisor) John Pell Coster Train (May 25, 1928 – August 13, 2022) was an American investment advisor and writer. He was a founding editor of The Paris Review . Train was born on the Upper East Side of Manhattan to Helen Coster Gerard and Arthur Train . His father

77-592: The United Nations), and was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute of Strategic Studies (London). Train received part-time appointments from Presidents Ronald Reagan , George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton as a director of government agencies and entities dealing with Africa, Asia, and Central Europe, respectively. Train had two decorations from

88-553: The career of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn , with whom Train once worked closely. Asked whether he would prefer to receive the prize, or have it named after him, or be a judge, Solzhenitsyn chose the last, which he did to the end of his life. The trustees and directors of the Civil Courage Prize include five ambassadors: American, English and South African. He was an overseer of the Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University (affiliated with

99-530: The first managing editor of The Paris Review , which won attention by publishing extended interviews with such authors as Ernest Hemingway , Thornton Wilder and William Faulkner . Train served in the U.S. Army . After working in Wall Street , he founded the New York investment counsel firm now known as Train, Babcock Advisors. During this period, he became the principal owner of Château Malescasse,

110-621: Was a district attorney in New York City and the author of the popular "Ephraim Tutt" stories that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in the 1930s and 1940s. He graduated from Groton School in 1946. He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1950 and a Master of Arts in 1951. He was editor of The Harvard Lampoon and president of the Signet Society. In 1953, he co-founded and became

121-771: Was married to Paul Klebnikov , a journalist murdered in Russia. Train died on August 13, 2022, at a hospital in Rockport, Maine , aged 94. Train wrote several hundred columns in The Wall Street Journal , Forbes , London's Financial Times , and other publications. Also, about 25 books, translated into many languages, including: He has also written several humorous books, including John Train's Most Remarkable Names (which produced two sequels), Most Remarkable Occurrences , Wit: The Best Things Ever Said , Love , and others (mostly HarperCollins), all in

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