Maurice Strong - Honours and Awards

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.