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 research focuses 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 M.S. and Ph.D. from Duke University. From 1980 to 1984 she served on the President's Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere. 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.
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 serves on the boards of several national and international organizations committed to development, democracy, and accountability issues both in 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 admiration for 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 Goodman Dr. Allan 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 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. His publications include 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.
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. 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," publications created for an inter-governmental panel on climate change in 1995. 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 For over twenty years, Professor Prins was a Fellow and the Director of Studies in History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Cambridge. In 2002, Professor Prins 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 post supports moves to reanimate university culture for the 21st century. Professor Prins 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 program. 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.
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 Since 1993, Ken Roth has served as the Director of Human Rights Watch. 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 accountability 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.
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 Program (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 and 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, Prison Diary, Argentina, The Professor and the Madman, The Fracture Zone, Krakatoa, The Map That Changed the World, and A Crack in the Edge of 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
