The Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award
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:
| Year | Winner | Country | Accomplishments |
| 1966 | Abdul Majid | Afghanistan | |
| 1967 | Galo Plaza | Ecuador | president of Ecuador and secretary general of OAS |
| 1968 | Kiyoshi “George” Togasaki | Japan | |
| 1969 | Mario Báncora | Argentina | |
| 1970 | Sun Fo | China | premier of China |
| 1971 | John J. Akar | Sierra Leone | ambassador to US; composed national anthem |
| 1972 | Garegin Saroukhanian | Iran | |
| 1973 | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | Pakistan | prime minister and president of Pakistan |
| 1974 | Li Choh-ming | China-Hong Kong | founding vice chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 1975 | Håkon Wexelsen | Norway | rector of the Norwegian College of Agriculture |
| 1976 | Haraldur Kröyer | Iceland | |
| 1977 | Menahem Rebhun | Israel | |
| 1978 | Sadako Ogata | Japan | president of UNICEF and later UN High Commissioner for Refugees |
| 1979 | João Baptista Pinheiro | Brazil | |
| 1980 | Kenneth D. Taylor | Canada | as ambassador to Iran, assisted escape of Americans from Iran |
| 1981 | Kuang Tou Chang | China | vice president of Tsinghua University |
| 1982 | Choong Kung Cho | South Korea | |
| 1983 | Yoash Vaadia | Israel | |
| 1984 | Widjojo Nitisastro | Indonesia | economist |
| 1985 | Allan Gotlieb | Canada | ambassador to US |
| 1986 | Joon Lew | South Korea | |
| 1987 | Not given | ||
| 1988 | Hans Hollein | Austria | architect |
| 1989 | Julius Gikonyo Kiano | Kenya | |
| 1990 | Not given | ||
| 1991 | Not given | ||
| 1992 | Mohammed Al-Shaikh | Saudi Arabia | |
| 1993 | Hans-Peter Dürr | Germany | physicist and peace activist |
| 1994 | Han Sung-Joo | South Korea | |
| 1994 | James C. Y. Soong | China | governor of Taiwan |
| 1996 | Venkataram Ramakrishna | India | |
| 1997 | Laura Castillo de Gurfinkel | Venezuela | |
| 1998 | Ahmed Ahmed Goueli | Egypt | |
| 1999 | Urvashi Malhotra Sahni | India | feminist education activist |
| 2000 | Živorad I. Kovačević | Yugoslavia | politician, ambassador to US |
| 2001 | Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría | Costa Rica | president of Costa Rica |
| 2002 | Dorodjatun Kuntjoro-Jakti | Indonesia | ambassador to US |
| 2003 | Norman Myers | United Kingdom | environmentalist |
| 2004 | David Harrison | South Africa | |
| 2005 | Juree Vichit-Vadakan | Thailand | |
| 2006 | Mu Sochua | Cambodia | politician and human rights activist |
| 2007 | Marcos Espinal | Dominican Republic | physician in Pan American Health Organization |
| 2008 | Mario Bergara | Uruguay | economist, presided over Central Bank of Uruguay |
| 2009 | Reynato S. Puno | Philippines | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines |
| 2010 | Josephine Namboze | Uganda | |
| 2011 | Yuan Tseh “Y.T.” Lee | Taiwan | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| 2012 | Xiulan Zhang | China | |
| 2013 | Andrés Roemer | Mexico | public intellectual |
References
- University of California at Berkeley. "The Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award". Retrieved 30 April 2014.
- University of California at Berkeley. "The Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award Previous Recipients". Retrieved 30 April 2014.
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