Ballot Archive

27 Feb 2020

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

George Ong

Academic degrees, honours etc.

B.S. (New York); J.D. (Emory)

Profession or occupation

Lawyer, author, and collector

Grounds for election

A collector and author with a long-standing interest in the history of book and manuscript cataloguing; author of For Jean Grolier and His Friends and From Almeloveen to Whittington, and curator of related exhibitions; editor of the publications of the Grolier Club of New York, with a focus on books, manuscripts, and objects related to printing in Europe and the Americas in the past 400 years. In professional life, a specialist in the law of intellectual property.

Signatories

The following Fellows have signed this Blue Paper