Brian Williams, the anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News” and “Rock Center with Brian Williams” will deliver the Commencement address at Elon University on May 25, 2013. The ceremony will take place "Under the Oaks" in front of West Residence Hall at 9:30 a.m.
Williams is chair of the School of Communications Advisory Board and father of senior Doug Williams.
Williams joined NBC News in 1993 and became NBC’s chief White House correspondent. He was soon promoted to anchor and managing editor of The News With Brian Williams on MSNBC and CNBC.
He was named anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News in 2004, and in 2006, Time magazine listed him as one of the world's 100 most influential people. In 2011, NBC News launched “Rock Center with Brian Williams.”
Williams has received many awards for his work, including 11 Edward R. Murrow Awards, 12 Emmy Awards, the duPont-Columbia University Award, the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism and the George Foster Peabody Award.