Blechinger receives international hero award

Other recipients of the award this year are the President of Colombia Alvaro Uribe, Mayor of the City of Atlanta Kasim Reed, U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, U.S. Ambassador Charles Shapiro, Dean of the Consular Corps of Georgia.Consul General of Germany Lutz Gorgens, Consul General of the U.K. Annabelle Malins, Mark Becker, president of Georgia State University, William Pate, president of Atlanta Convention Center and Visitors Bureau, Joseph Bankoff, president of the Woodruff Arts Center, Helene Gayle, president of CARE, Louis Miller, general manager of Atlanta International Airport, Consul of Denmark Christopher Smith, Consul of Netherlands Ewould Swaak, Kathe Falls, GDEcD director, Phil Bolton, Global Atlanta Publisher, among others.