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Vartan Gregorian in Armenia in 2019 Credit: Victor Boyko/Getty Images Vartan Gregorian, who has died aged 87, was an Armenian immigrant to the US, born into poverty in Iran, who became a scholar, university leader and an Olympic-standard fundraiser and philanthropist, on first name terms with everyone who was anyone; one newspaper described him as “one of the few men in the world who could phone Bush or Bono and expect both of them to take his call”. In a colourful career, Gregorian, a short, stout man of boundless energy and charm, notched up a formidable CV. He served as president of Brown University and president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York (the foundation created by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to promote education and peace). ....