2004-05 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award Recipients
Nazli Choucri
Professor Choucri works in international relations and international
political economy with a special focus on conflict, connectivity, and
the global environment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Her current research is on the power of knowledge in the global economy,
and the political and strategic implications of e-development, e-business,
and e-learning. As Director of the Global System for Sustainable Development
(GSSD), she manages a distributed multilingual e-knowledge networking
system designed to facilitate the provision and uses of knowledge in
transitions to sustainability. She continues her research on interconnections
among population, politics, and environment extending work reported in
three of her earlier books, namely Population Dynamics in International
Violence; International Energy Interdependence; and International Energy
Futures, and her edited volume on Multidisciplinary Perspectives of Population
and Conflict. She is co-author of Nations in Conflict and the companion
book on The Challenge of Japan Before World War II and After .
For decades
of dedication to meaningful scholarship that impacts policy; for your
determination to improve our future politically and ecologically; for
having inspired paradigmatic thinking globallyby creating intellectual
and practical models and institutions on a global scale that have made
a difference in multitudes of people’s lives in the developing
world.
Sylvia Earle
Sylvia A. Earle is an oceanographer with a B.S. degree from Florida
State University (1955), M.S. and PhD. From Duke University (1956,
1966) and honorary degrees from the Monterey Institute (1990), Ball
State University (1991), Washington College (1992), Duke University
(1993), Ripon College (1994), University of Connecticut (1994), University
of Rhode Island (1996), Plymouth State College (1996), Simmons College
(1997), Florida International University (1998), and St. Norbert's
College (1998). She was Curator of Phycology at the California Academy
of Sciences (1979-1986) and a Research Associate at the University
of California Berkeley (1969-1981), Radcliff Institute Scholar (1967-1969)
and Research Fellow or Associate at Harvard University (1967-1981).
From 1980 to 1984 she served on the President's Advisory Committee
on Oceans and Atmosphere (1980-1984). In 1990 she was appointed as
Chief Scientist of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
where she served until 1992. In 1992 she founded Deep Ocean Exploration
and Research (D O E R), to design, operate, support and consult on
manned and robotic sub sea systems.
Recognized by the Library of Congress
as a Living Legend, Dr. Earle is presently Chairman of D O E R and
an Explorer in Residence at the National Geographic Society. In addition,
she serves as an Honorary President for the Explorers Club, Executive
Director for Global Marine Conservation for Conservation International,
and Program Coordinator & Advisory
Council Chair for the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.
She is an adjunct scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
(MBARI), a director of Kerr-McGee Inc., a director for the Common Heritage
Corporation, and serves on various boards, foundations, and committees
relating to marine research, policy, and conservation. These include
the World Resources Institute, World Environment Center, Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute, Duke University Marine Laboratory, Mote
Marine Laboratory, Lindbergh Foundation, World Wildlife Fund, Natural
Resource Defense Council, and the Ocean Conservancy. She is a Fellow
of the AAAS, Marine Technology Society, California Academy of Sciences,
and World Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In recognition of your extraordinary
life as a rigorous scientific researcher and a daring oceanic explorer;
for giving extraordinary meaning to the words, depth, risk and
adventure; for your boldness in probing the recesses of our vast and
remarkably unknown world; for your unrelenting efforts at creating sustainable
sanctuaries; for providing the global community with insight and
access to worlds only understood by most as forbidding and dangerous;
and for reaching new heights in the stirring of our imaginations.
Obiageli Ezekwesili
Obiageli Ezekwesili is Special
Assistant for Budget to the President of Nigeria. She is a leader
in development and governance initiatives. She serves on the boards
of several national and international organizations committed to
development, democracy, and accountability issues both in her country
Nigeria and globally. She was cited in the recent publication "heroes
of Democracy" for
her numerous advocacy roles. Oby is a chartered accountant and management
consultant. She is presently leading the Nigeria Project for the Center
for International Development of Harvard University. She is on the
Board of Directors of the New Nigeria Foundation. She is the founder
and co-director of the Center for Public Policy Priorities in Nigeria.
She is the former Finance Director of Transparency International.
As Managing Consultant of Katryn Benjamin Associates, she worked
to build capacity in the Small and medium Scale Entrepreneurship
sector in Africa. She worked previously in the financial sector as
managing Director of Modern Finance, a finance and investment company,
and with Akintola Williams & Co (Deloitte & Touche) in audit
and consulting positions.
Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili,
who is widely known and admired in Nigeria as a "hero of democracy," in
profound admirationfor your powerful advocacy; for your unswerving
courage and tenacity; for your successes in promoting transparency
and fighting corruption; and for your determination and commitment
to development, democracy, and accountability, nationally, regionally
and globally.
Allan E. Goodman
Dr. Goodman is the President and CEO of
the Institute of International Education, the leading not-for-profit
organization in the field of international educational exchange and development
training. IIE administers the Fulbright program, sponsored by the United
States Department of State, and 250 other corporate, government and privately-sponsored
programs. Previously, Dr. Goodman was Executive Dean of the School of
Foreign Service and Professor at Georgetown University. He is the author
of A Brief History of the Future: The United States in a Changing World
Order and the coauthor of Best Truth: Intelligence in the Information
Age ,Strategic Intelligence for American National Security , and The
Need to Know: The Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on
Covert Action and American Democracy , among other publications. Dr.
Goodman also served as Presidential Briefing Coordinator for the Director
of Central Intelligence and as Special Assistant to the Director of the
National Foreign Assessment Center in the Carter Administration. He was
the first American professor to lecture at the Foreign Affairs College
of Beijing. Dr. Goodman also helped create the first U.S. academic exchange
program with the Moscow Diplomatic Academy for the Association of Professional
Schools of International Affairs and developed the diplomatic training
program of the Foreign Ministry of Vietnam. Dr. Goodman has served as
a consultant to Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation, the United States Information Agency, and IBM. He is a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for
Strategic Studies.
In recognition of your extraordinary career
in government, international education, and development and for your
passion and dedication to breaking down barriers, to diminishing hatred
and ignorance by enabling knowledge and ideas to flow freely across borders,
and to humanizing international relations by creating and enabling greater
understanding and respect for the richness of human experience and the
diversity of our global community.
Stanley Hoffmann
Dr. Hoffmann is the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser
University Professor at Harvard University, where he has taught since
1955. He was the Chairman of Harvard's Center for European Studies from
its creation in 1969 to 1995. Professor Hoffmann lived and studied in
France from 1929 to 1955; he has taught at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques
of Paris and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. At
Harvard, he teaches French intellectual and political history, American
foreign policy, post-World War Two European history, the sociology of
war, international politics, ethics and world affairs, modern political
ideologies, and the development of the modern state. Among his publications,
Decline or Renewal? France Since the 30's ;Primacy or World Order: American
Foreign Policy since the Cold War ;Duties Beyond Borders ;Janus and Minerva
;The European Sisyphus ;The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention
; and World Disorders . He is the coauthor of The Mitterrand Experiment
;The New European Community ; and After the Cold War . His Tanner lectures
of 1993, on the French nation and nationalism, were published in 1994.
He is working on a book on ethics and international affairs.
In recognition of your lifetime
of distinguished, intellectual scholarship and acute, analytical insight
and your ethical and practical critique of American foreign policy,
and for your compelling policy formulations, in pursuit of both order
and justice, that acknowledge the complexities of world affairs
William Moomaw
Dr. William R. Moomaw holds a Ph.D. from
MIT in physical chemistry. He is Professor of International Environmental
Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
and directs the International Environmental and Resource Program there.
He is the Senior Director of the Tufts Institute of the Environment (TIE),
an interdisciplinary research institute at Tufts University. He is the
Principal Lead author for "Industry" and "Industry, Energy,
and Transportation: Impacts and Adaptation," Climate Change 1995,
Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change. His research interests include:
global climate change; stratospheric ozone depletion; air pollution;
the role of science and technology in national and international policy;
and forest and energy policy. He is working with diplomats and negotiators
to improve the likely outcome for international treaties on climate change,
biodiversity and other global issues.
In admiration for your original, compassionate scholarship and intellectual
verve; for your optimism and determination to develop policies that have
and will continue to enhance mankind's prospects for survival; for teaching,
with wit and integrity, generations of students to think rigorously about
profoundly important issues.
Gwyn Prins
Of Anglo-Dutch parentage, after school in
Bath and in Paris, voluntary service teaching in Swaziland and a Double
First in History at Cambridge, Professor Prins was for over twenty years
a Fellow and the Director of Studies in History at Emmanuel College,
Cambridge, and a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Cambridge.
For much of the 1970s, he lived in the Zambian bush, and conducted research
and published in African and imperial cultural and political history
(for which his book on 19th century Bulozi won the 1980 Herskovits Prize),
and in medical anthropology (mainly on pluralistic medical systems and
on epidemiology: at that time, of TB spread from the deep mines of the
Rand).
From 1 July 2002, he has become the first
Alliance Research Professor appointed jointly at the LSE and Columbia
University, New York, forming and directing collaborative strategic research
on leading edge security issues. This new type of post supports moves
to reanimate university culture for the 21st century. It reports directly
to the Provost (CU) and the Deputy Director (Academic) (LSE), is not
attached to any single department, but works with many.
He lectures to
senior military audiences (at SHAPE, at the ARRC etc) and regularly
at the Royal College of Defence Studies and the NATO Defense College
in Rome. In 1999-2000 he chaired an MoD funded Chatham House study group
on the roots of asymmetric violence, and contemporary terrorism. He
lectures bi-annually for the US DoD's National Security Studies programme.
He is a member of the Pugwash Working Groups on Nuclear Weapons in the
21st Century and on Intervention, Sovereignty and International Security.
He assisted the UN International Commission on Intervention and State
Sovereignty during 2001. In 2002 he was engaged in advising governments
on the August 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development held in
Johannesburg.
His latest book, The Heart of War: On Power,
Conflict and Obligation in the 21st Century , was published by Routledge
in September 2002. He will shortly be lecturing in London and New York
on the return of geo-politics.
In recognition of your boundless intellectual
creativity and your influential career of distinguished scholarship
and truly interdisciplinary thinking, on issues including global security,
development politics, human rights, the environment, climate change,
the consequences of pandemics and, in our current complex world, imperial
history; in admiration for understanding policy restraints, while refusing
to yield to them and, on this 20th Anniversary of EPIIC, for your unabashed
enthusiasm for teaching and learning and for your unabated challenge
to our students and the world to think in critical and unconventional
ways.
Ken Roth
Ken Roth has served as the Director of Human Rights
Watch since 1993. The largest U.S.-based international human rights organization,
Human Rights Watch investigates, reports on, and seeks to curb human
rights abuses in some 70 countries. From 1987 to 1993, Mr. Roth served
as deputy director of the organization. Previously, he was a federal
prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of
New York and the Iran-Contra investigation in Washington. He also worked
in private practice as a litigator.
Mr. Roth has conducted human rights
investigations around the globe, devoting special attention to issues
of justice and account- ability for gross abuses of human rights, standards
governing military conduct in time of war, the human rights policies
of the United States and the United Nations, and the human rights responsibilities
of multinational businesses. He has written over 70 articles and chapters
on a range of human rights topics in such publications as the New York
Times, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, the International Herald
Tribune, and the New York Review of Books. He also regularly appears
in the major media and speaks to audiences around the world.
In his
ten years as executive director of Human Rights Watch, the organization
has tripled in size, while greatly expanding its geographic reach,
and adding special projects devoted to refugees, children's rights, academic
freedom, international justice, AIDS, gay and lesbian rights, and the
human rights responsibilities of multinational corporations.
In recognition
of your lifelong personal dedication to accountability and integrity
in public life and to the pursuit of global justice; and for your courageous
leadership and determination to protect the human rights of people
around the world, challenging governments and those who hold power to
end abusive practices and to respect international law
Julia
Taft
Julia Taft is the Assistant Administrator
and Director of the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR)
in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which addresses issues
of crisis prevention, post-conflict recovery, institution-building and
natural disaster mitigation. In January 2002, she headed the UNDP Task
Force, coordinating and formulating a single, coherent recovery effort
for Afghanistan in support of the work of the Special Representative
of the United Nations Secretary-General for Afghanistan. Prior to joining
UNDP, Ms. Taft served as Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Population,
Refugees and Migration at the United States State Department from 1997
to 2001. She has also been director of the Office for U.S. Disaster Assistance
in USAID and the U.S. Special coordinator for Tibetan affairs in the
U.S. Department of State. She has been President and Chief Executive
Officer of InterAction, a coalition of 156 United States-based private,
voluntary organizations working on international development, refugee
assistance and humanitarian relief. Ms. Taft has received several awards,
including the Presidential End Hunger Award (1989) and the AID Distinguished
Service Award for Personal Courage for her relief efforts in the Armenian
earthquake (1990). She also served on the Board of the National Endowment
for Democracy for three years.
In recognition of a lifetime of courageous
and distinguished public service dedicated to the development of a
coherent, integrated vision of restoring dignity and livelihood to people
in crisis around the world, from Afghanistan to Sudan, from Armenia to
Tibet.
Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester
was born and educated in England, has lived in Africa, India and Asia.
He studied geology at Oxford and has written for Condé Nast Traveler,
Smithsonian, National Geographic, and he contributes to a number of American
magazines, as well as to the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator and the BBC.
Simon Winchester's
books include Outposts: Travels to the Remains of the British Empire
;Korea: A Walk through the Land of Miracles ;The Pacific ;Pacific Nightmare,
a fictional account of the aftermath of the Hong Kong hand-over ;Prison
Diary, Argentina, the story of three months spent in a Patagonian jail
on spying charges during the Falklands war ;The River at the Centre
of the World - A Journey Up the Yangtze, Back in Chinese Time ,The Surgeon
of Crowthorne ,The Fracture Zone and The Map That Changed the World
. He lives in Massachusetts and in the Western Isles of Scotland.
In admiration for the sweep and originality of your intellectual inquiries,
your erudition, wit and ability to inform and provoke; for an inspiring,
roving restless life and scholarship that have informed and alerted,
intrigued and inspired; for your love of language and the search for
the meaning of our individual and collective lives.
