Honorary doctorates proposed by the ULiège authorities


Honorary doctorates from previous years

2025-2026

Honorary doctors: Yasmine Belkaid, Thomas Ostermeier, Alain Aspect

2024-2025

Honorary doctors: Svante Pääbo, Mahbouba Seraj, Charles Langmuir

2023-2024

Honorary doctors: Aurélien Barrau, Esther Duflo, Zanele Muholi

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2020-2021

Honorary doctors: Anna Triandafyllidou, Philippe Aghion, Gérald Bronner

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2018-2019

Honorary doctors: Hassan Jarfi, Christine Mahy, Denis Mukwege

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2017-2018

Honorary doctors: Fatou Diome, Bernard Serin, Rolf Tarrach

2016-2017: From the source to the ocean

Honorary doctors: Laurent Ballesta, Sylvia Earle, Paul Gilroy, Mackaye Hassane Taisso, Erik Orsenna

2015-2016: Rethinking our social model

Honorary doctors: Nancy Fraser, Caryl Phillips, Pierre Rabhi, Matthieu Ricard, Jeremy Rifkin

2013-2014 : Freedom of expression

Honorary doctors: Stevan Harnad, Lukpan Akhmediarov, ICIJ International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Nadia Khiari, Pierre Kroll and Jean Plantureux (known as Plantu)

2012-2013 : Space science

Honorary doctors: Dirk Frimout, Frank De Winne, Charles Bolden, Jean-Jacques Dordain and Paul Van Hoeydonck

2011-2012: Human Rights and Freedoms

Honorary doctorate: Abdou Diouf

2010-2011: Images in all their forms

Honorary doctorates: Pierre Alechinsky, Victor Burgin, Santiago Calatrava, William Klein, Agnès Varda, Jacques Perrin, Bill Viola

2009-2010: Music Passers & World Wide Web

Honorary doctorates: Dick Annegarn, Anthony Braxton, Arvo Pärt, Henri Pousseur (posthumously), Frederic Rzewski, Archie Shepp, Robert Wyatt, Sir Timothy Berners-Lee and Robert Caillau

2008-2009: Climate change: causes, effects and challenges

Honorary doctorate: Rajendra Pachauri

2007-2008: What's the point of literature?

Honorary doctorates: Paul Auster, Nancy Huston, Alberto Manguel, Haruki Murakami, Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, Antonio Tabucchi

2006-2007: The place of women in the economic, political and cultural world

Honorary doctorate: Vaira Vike-Freiberga

updated on 3/2/26

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