Jim Murren, chairman and CEO of MGM Resorts International, and his wife Heather Murren, a financial analyst who last year was appointed by President Barack Obama to the White House Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, were both awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship, in recognition of business practices and community work.
The couple were scheduled to receive the honor at a dinner and ceremony May 10 from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Murren, in addition to running q company of 77,000 employees with resorts in multiple states, is the visionary behind CityCenter, the urban resort designation that opened on the Las Vegas Strip in 2009.
Heather Murren is a chartered financial analyst. She co-founded the Nevada Cancer Institute, the first non-profit cancer research and treatment center in Las Vegas.
In 2009, she was appointed by Congress to serve on a federal panel to examine the domestic and global causes of the financial crisis.
