Honours and Awards
Maurice Strong has received a number of honours, awards and medals. He has received 53 honorary doctorate degrees and honorary visiting professorships at 7 universities.
Among the honours and awards:
- 2005: He was Awarded the Order of Manitoba the Highest Award in the Province of Manitoba.
- 2003: Public Welfare Medal from the US National Academy of Sciences: First Non-US Citizen to receive the medal, 2007
- 2002 Simon Fraser University Jack P. Blaney Award for Dialogue
- 2002: Carriage House Center on Global Issues: Candlelight Award
- 1999: Companion of the Order of Canada
- 1998 he was given the Order of the Southern Cross by the Government of Brazil
- 1996: Swedish Royal Order of the Polar Star
- 1995: IKEA Environmental Award
- 1994: Asahi Glass Foundation Award: Blue Planet Prize
- 1994: Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding
- 1993: International St. Francis Prize for the Environment
- 1993: Alexander Onassis Delphi Prize
- 1997: Henri Pittier Order of Venezuela
- 1989: Pearson Medal of Peace
- 1981: Charles A. Lindbergh Award
- 1976: Officer of the Order of Canada
- 1975: National Audubon Society Award
- 1974: Tyler Environmental Prize
Other honours and awards include:
- The Brazilian National Order of the Southern Cross
- Commander of the Order of the Golden Ark (Netherlands)
- International Saint Francis Prize, Fellow
- The Royal Society
- Royal Society of Canada
- Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
- Honorary Board Member, David Suzuki Foundation
- Distinguished Fellow, International Institute for Sustainable Development
- John Ralston Saul dedicated his polemic Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason In The West to Strong.
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