UN Recipients of FDU Honorary Degrees

  • H.E. Ernest A. Gross, US Permanent Representative to the UN (1949-50)
  • H.E. Trygve Lie, UN Secretary General (1946-52)
  • H.E. Ben C. Limb, Korean Foreign Minister (1949) and Korea’s Permanent Representative to the UN (1950-60)
  • Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1950) and co-author of UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • H.R.H. Prince Wan Waithayakon, President of the Eleventh Session of the United Nations General Assembly (1956-57) and Thailand’s Permanent Representative to the UN
  • H.E. Amintore Fanfani, President of the Twentieth Session of the United Nations General Assembly (1965-66), Italy’s Permanent Representative to the UN, and former Prime Minister of Italy
  • H.E. Sir Leslie Munro, President of the Twelfth Session of the United Nations General Assembly (1958-59) and New Zealand’s Permanent Representative to the UN
  • H.E. Benjamin A. Cohen, Assistant Secretary General in charge of the UN Department of Public information (1946-1954), Undersecretary for the Department of Trusteeship (1954-1959), and Permanent Representative of Chile to the UN (1959-60)
  • H.E. Fredrick H. Boland, President of the Thirteenth Session of the UN General Assembly (1959-60) and Ireland’s Permanent Representative to the UN
  • H.E. Victor A. Belaunde, President of the Fourteenth Session of the UN General Assembly (1961-62) and Peru’s Permanent Representative to the UN
  • H.E. Lord Dr. Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesia’s Permanent Representative to the UN (1957-1960)
  • H.E. Andrew W. Cordier, Undersecretary in Charge of General Assembly and Related Affairs (1946-61) and special representative of the Secretary General in the Korean War and the Suez Canal and Congo crises
  • H.E. Lord Harlech, United Kingdom’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Permanent Representative to the UN (1957-61)
  • H.E. Soo Young Lee, Republic of Korea’s Permanent Representative to the UN (1961-64)
  • H.E. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., US Permanent Representative to the UN (1953-60)
  • H.E. Thanat Khoman, Thailand’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN (1952-57) and Foreign Minister of Thailand
  • H.E. Nasrolla Fatemi, Iran’s Permanent Representative to the UN (1952-53)
  • H.E. Ibrahim A. Gambari, Under-Secretary-General for the Department of Political Affairs (2005-07), Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Africa (2000 to 2005), and Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN (1990 to 1999)
  • H.E. Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General (2007-present)