The New England Council, the nation’s oldest regional business organization, presented its “New Englanders of the Year” awards at its 2016 Annual Dinner at the Seaport Hotel/World Trade Center in Boston on Nov. 1. This year’s recipients were former Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns (now at Harvard); U.S. Olympic Track & Field team member, Topsfield, Mass., resident and Dartmouth College graduate Abbey D’Agostino; Jeffrey R. Immelt, chairman and CEO of Boston-based GE and another Dartmouth graduate, and Rhode Island Gov. Gina M. Raimondo, a graduate of Harvard and Yale Law School.
