Honorary Doctorates
Notable recipients of honorary doctorates at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven include:
- Roger Penrose (2005), professor in Mathematical Physics, University of Oxford
- Mario Vargas Llosa (2003), Peruvian writer
- Carla Del Ponte (2002), former Chief prosecutor of two United Nations international criminal law tribunals
- Alan Greenspan (1997), economist, former chairman of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve
- Helmut Kohl (1996), former Chancellor of Germany
- Jacques Derrida, French philosopher
- Nadine Gordimer (1980), South African author, Booker Prize 1974, Nobel Prize in Literature 1991
- Helmut Schmidt (1983), former Chancellor of Germany
- Martha Nussbaum (1997), American philosopher, University of Chicago
- Oscar Arnulfo Romero, archbishop of San Salvador (El Salvador), human rights activist
- Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople (1996)
- Mary Robinson (2000), former President of Ireland
- Manuel Castells (2004), Professor of Sociology, Open University of Catalonia, University of Southern California
- Thomas S. Popkewitz (2004), professor of curriculum theory, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education
- Roberto Benigni (2007), Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television.
- Jared Diamond (2008), professor of Geography and Physiology, UCLA
- Dirk Obbink, Lecturer in Papyrology and Greek Literature at Oxford University and the head of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project.
- John Braithwaite (2008), Australian criminologist (application of the idea of restorative justice to business regulation and peacebuilding
- Timothy Garton Ash (2011), British historian and Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford
- Rowan Williams (2011), Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Christine Lagarde (2012), Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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