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Greg Mortenson (born December 27, 1957) is an American humanitarian, professional speaker, writer, and former mountaineer. He is a co-founder and former executive director of the non-profit Central Asia Institute, from which he was forced to resign as executive director following an investigation by the Montana attorney general,〔http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/magazine/a-save-the-world-field-trip-for-millionaire-tech-moguls.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0〕 and the founder of the educational charity Pennies for Peace. Mortenson is the co-author of The New York Times Bestseller, ''Three Cups of Tea'', which stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 220 weeks.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Inside the List )〕 ''Three Cups of Tea'' has been published in over 47 languages. Mortenson is also the author of ''Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan''. Mortenson has been criticized by writers such as Peter Hessler and Jon Krakauer for financial mismanagement of his charity, for "dodging accountability" and for writing a book Krakauer described as "riddled with lies". ==Early life== Mortsenson was born in 1957 in St. Cloud, Minnesota. His father, Irvin "Dempsey" and mother, Jerene, went with the Lutheran Church to Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in 1958 to be teachers in at a girl's school in the Usambara mountains. In 1961, Dempsey became a fundraiser and development director for the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Karibu )〕 the first teaching hospital in Tanzania. Jerene was the founding principal of International School Moshi.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Welcome to International School Moshi )〕 Spending his early childhood and adolescence in Tanzania, Mortenson learned to speak fluent Swahili.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Three Cups of Tea )〕〔(Academy of Achievement Living History Museum online )〕〔(Will Herbert, “Speaker to Promote Peace Through Education” Laramie County Community County Wingspan March 2011 )〕 In the early 1970s, when he was 15 years old, Mortenson and his family left Tanzania and moved back to Minnesota. He attended Ramsey High School in Roseville, Minnesota, from 1973 to 1975, where he graduated.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Over 1,000 Candidates to Receive Degrees During 2006 Spring Commencement at The U )〕 After high school, Mortenson served in the U.S. Army in Germany from 1975 to 1977 and was awarded the Army Commendation Medal. Following his discharge, he attended Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, from 1977 to 1979 on an athletic (football) scholarship.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Concordia Men's Sports - The First One Hundred Years )〕 In 1978, Concordia College's football team won the NAIA Division III national championship with a 7-0 win over Findlay, Ohio.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Championships )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Championship History )〕 Mortenson graduated from the University of South Dakota in 1983 with a bachelor's degree in liberal studies and an associate degree in nursing.〔〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Greg Mortenson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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