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created the nation’s first graduate school of nutrition, established New England’s only veterinary school and the USDA
Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts, and co-founded the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences and
the Center for Environmental Management. As chair of the New England Board of Higher Education, he created scholarships
that enabled non-white South Africans to go to mixed-race universities in their own country.
“...Mayer moved universities as social institutions in new directions and toward the assumption of larger
responsibilities. He saw them as instruments for improving society and the world environment... Those who
knew him will miss his quick grasp of complicated and often-conflicting material, the clarity of his insight,
his courage in tackling formidable tasks and his unfailing charm.” -- The Boston Globe
EPIIC established the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award in 1993 to honor his work and life and his ongoing support of
EPIIC’s, and now the Institute’s, mission and pedagogy. Since then, the award has developed from a single, annual award
as the keynote of the EPIIC symposium to a yearlong lecture series honoring the achievements of distinguished individuals
and organizations committed to addressing and solving critical global challenges. The series is made possible through the
generosity of IGL Executive Advisory Board Member Theodore Mayer and the Mayer Family.
The 2006-7 recipients were:
Mark Malloch Brown
Mark Malloch Brown is Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. Before
his current appointment, he was the Secretary-General’s Chef de Cabinet since
January 2005. In that position, he worked closely with the Secretary-General and the
Deputy-Secretary General on all aspects of UN work, including helping to set out an
ambitious reform agenda for the United Nations. Prior to becoming Chef de Cabinet,
Mr. Malloch Brown served as Administrator of the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP), the UN’s global development network, from July 1999 to August
2005. During that time, he was also the Chair of the United Nations Development
Group, a committee consisting of the heads of all UN funds, programmes and departments working on development issues.
He has also served as the Former Vice President for External Affairs at the World Bank.
Irwin Cotler
The Honorable Irwin Cotler was Canada’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
from 2003-2006. He currently serves in the Canadian House of Commons for the constituency
of Mount Royal. Mr. Cotler was a professor of law at McGill University and the director of its
Human Rights Program from 1973 until his election as a Member of Parliament in 1999. He
has also been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Yale
Law School and is the recipient of five honorary doctorates. He was appointed in 1992 as an
Officer of the Order of Canada. He is a past president of the Canadian Jewish Congress.
Peter Galbraith
Peter Galbraith is the author of The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without
End. From 1979 to 1993, Galbraith was a senior advisor to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee
and is the author of published Foreign Relations Committee reports on ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-
Herzegovina, the Iran-Iraq War, and the Iraqi Kurds. In the late 1980s, Galbraith helped expose
Saddam Hussein’s murderous “al-anfal” campaign against the Iraqi Kurds. Galbraith served as the first
US Ambassador to Croatia and has held senior positions in the US Government and the United Nations.
As US Ambassador to Croatia, Galbraith was actively involved in the Croatia and Bosnia peace processes.
From January 2000 to August 2001, Ambassador Galbraith was Director for Political, Constitutional
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