The Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award explained

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 Yearwidth=20% align=center bgcolor=Silver Winnerwidth=15% align=center bgcolor=Silver Countrywidth=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

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: University of California at Berkeley. The Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award. 30 April 2014.
  2. Web site: University of California at Berkeley. The Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award Previous Recipients . 30 April 2014.