Also called “Haas Award” is an award from the University of California at Berkeley[1] established in 1964 by Walter A. Haas Jr., Peter E. Haas and Richard Goldman. It recognizes students or alumni of the university who are from a different country to the United States who have made significant contributions to their country.
The award winners[2] have been:
width=10% align=center bgcolor=Silver | Year | width=20% align=center bgcolor=Silver | Winner | width=15% align=center bgcolor=Silver | Country | width=45% align=center bgcolor=Silver | Accomplishments |
1966 | Abdul Majid | ||||||
1967 | president of Ecuador and secretary general of OAS | ||||||
1968 | Japan | ||||||
1969 | |||||||
1970 | China | premier of China | |||||
1971 | ambassador to US; composed national anthem | ||||||
1972 | Iran | ||||||
1973 | prime minister and president of Pakistan | ||||||
1974 | founding vice chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong | ||||||
1975 | Norway | rector of the Norwegian College of Agriculture | |||||
1976 | |||||||
1977 | Israel | ||||||
1978 | Japan | president of UNICEF and later UN High Commissioner for Refugees | |||||
1979 | |||||||
1980 | Canada | as ambassador to Iran, assisted escape of Americans from Iran | |||||
1981 | China | vice president of Tsinghua University | |||||
1982 | |||||||
1983 | Israel | ||||||
1984 | economist | ||||||
1985 | Canada | ambassador to US | |||||
1986 | |||||||
1987 | Not given | ||||||
1988 | Austria | architect | |||||
1989 | |||||||
1990 | Not given | ||||||
1991 | Not given | ||||||
1992 | |||||||
1993 | Germany | physicist and peace activist | |||||
1994 | |||||||
1994 | China | governor of Taiwan | |||||
1996 | India | ||||||
1997 | |||||||
1998 | |||||||
1999 | Urvashi Malhotra Sahni | India | feminist education activist | ||||
2000 | politician, ambassador to US | ||||||
2001 | president of Costa Rica | ||||||
2002 | ambassador to US | ||||||
2003 | United Kingdom | environmentalist | |||||
2004 | |||||||
2005 | |||||||
2006 | politician and human rights activist | ||||||
2007 | physician in Pan American Health Organization | ||||||
2008 | economist, presided over Central Bank of Uruguay | ||||||
2009 | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines | ||||||
2010 | |||||||
2011 | Nobel Prize in Chemistry | ||||||
2012 | China | ||||||
2013 | Mexico | public intellectual | |||||