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Honorary Degree Recipients

Honorary Degree Recipients 2024

Since 1984, it has been a tradition at The American University of Paris to award honorary degrees as a way of recognizing a distinguished person鈥檚 contributions to a specific field or to society in general. An honorary degree is very often awarded to distinguished individuals whose accomplishments are consistent with the mission and core values of AUP.

Deborah Roberts is an award-winning ABC News correspondent and co-anchor of the prestigious news magazine, 鈥20/20鈥. A media veteran, Roberts has traveled the world for her reporting. She also serves as a substitute anchor for 鈥淕ood Morning America鈥 as well as a guest co-host on 鈥淭he View.鈥

Her in-depth coverage of current events has earned her a Peabody Award for the 鈥20/20鈥 special 鈥淪ay Her Name: Breonna Taylor.鈥 She has been awarded multiple Emmy庐 Awards for international and national coverage of world events, including the AIDS crisis in Africa and maternal mortality in Bangladesh.

Roberts is the author of 鈥淟essons Learned and Cherished: The Teacher Who Changed My Life鈥, a New York Times Bestseller. She鈥檚 also authored a book with her husband, Al Roker, called 鈥淏een There, Done That: Family Wisdom For Modern Times.鈥 She currently resides in New York City with her husband. They have two children.

Previous Honorary Degree Recipients

Honorary degrees have been awarded at AUP's commencement ceremony since 1984. Honorary degree recipients often give lectures or presentations in the days preceding commencement. These events are open to the public and provide graduates and their families with the opportunity to meet awardees in informal settings. One or more of the recipients is often invited to give a commencement address before the assembled faculty, graduates and parents 鈥 an event that is often the highlight of the ceremony. The following renowned scholars, artists, writers, political figures听and researchers have received honorary degrees from AUP.听

1984
Honorable Arthur Hartman

1985
Pierre Salinger

1986
Gene Kelly
Sir Stephen Spender

1987
Vicomte Etienne Davignon
Elizabeth McCormack

1988
Daniel Socolow
Simone Veil

1989
Helen Ahrweiler
Georges Duby
Luc Montagnier
Jessye Norman

1990
I. M. Pei
William Styron

1991
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1992
Maurice Allais
Francois Perigot

1993
Bernard Kouchner
Simon Weisenthal

1994
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Olivia de Havilland

1995
Glenn W. Ferguson
Jeannine Manuel
Frederico Mayor
H. E. Sa鈥檈ed Salman

1996
Christiane Amanpour
Pamela Harriman
Richard C. Holbrooke
Harry Wu

1997
Van Gordon Sauter
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

1998
Russell Porter
The Honorable Felix G. Rohatyn

1999
Chloe Wellingham Aaron

2000
Martin Gray

2001
Peter W. Goldmark
Willem Peppler

2002
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
The Honorable R. Sargent Shriver, Jr.

2003
Sir Crispin Tickell

2004
Yehuda Elkana

2005
Dr. Taslima Nasreen
Dame Muriel Spark
Dr. Tzvetan Todorov

2006
Barry Eichengreen
Mavis Gallant
Michel Rocard

2007
Edmond Alphandery
James Ivory

2008
Daniel Cohen
Paul Muldoon

2009
Naif Abdullah Al-Rukaibi
Leslie Caron
Reza Deghati
Christine Lagarde

2010
J.M. Coetzee
Eugene Lang
Robert Wilson

2011
Jane Goodall
Rory Stewart

2012
Richard Ned Lebow
David McCullough
Archie Shepp

2013
Louise Arbour
Martha Nussbaum

2014
Edward A. Frieman
Lillian Greene-Chamberlain
Judith Hermanson Ogilvie
Nicholas Vreeland

2015
Lisa Anderson
Margee Ensign
Benjamin Millepied

2016
Justice Stephen Breyer
Bertie Lubner
Kenneth Roth

2017
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi 鈥98
Her Excellency Huda Ebrahim Alkhamis '83
Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns

2018
Rachael Denhollander
Claudia Rankine
Kaija Saariaho

2019
Margaret MacMillan
Marian Goodman
Ali Rahnema

2020
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2021
Daniel Rose '00

2022
Obioma Nnaemeka
Corinne Mentzelopoulos
Leila Conners 鈥89

2023
Craig R. Stapleton
Celeste Schenck