The Chairman and Members of
THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE
FOR PROMOTION AND PRESTIGE
(Geneva)
hereby wish to thank the international personalities who, since the
creation
of our Institute in 1963, have presided over our award presentation
ceremonies the world over,
particularly :
Reigning sovereigns, heads of States, prime ministers,
politicians, administrators, Nobel Prize laureates, top scientists,
and economists
whose names are listed below.
(The titles and positions mentioned herein correspond to the
periods they were held by the personalities in question)
Rachid KECHICHE
Minister of Finance (Tunisia)
Mohammed BEDJAOUI
Former President of the international court of justice of the Hague
Former Minister for Foreign Affairs (Algeria)
Amadou TOUMANI TOURE
President of the Republic of Mali
Francis MER
Former Minister of Finance (France)
Raouf NAJAR
His Excellency the Ambassador of Tunisia in France
David KORNBLUTH
His Excellency the Ambassador of Israel
(UNESCO)
Alain CALMAT
Former Minister of Youth and Sports (France)
Thierry BRETON
Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry (France)
His excellence
Mr Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar
Prime Minister of Mauritania
His Royal Majesty
Crown Prince SIDI MOHAMED (Morocco)
Mr François Loos
French Government Minister for Industry
Ferdinand LANCINA
Economic Minister (Austria)
Mrs Catherine Lagarde
Minister for Foreign Trade (France)
His Royal Highness
Prince FILIP (Belgium)
Mr Marc-Philippe Daubresse
Former Minister (France)
His Excellency
Mr BLAISE COMPAORE
President of FASO
His Excellency
Mr Abdoulaye WADE
President of Republic of Senegal
Mr Jean-Pierre RAFFARIN
French Prime Minister
Mikhaïl GORBATCHEV
Former President of USSR
1990 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Simone VEIL
Former Minister of Health and Social Affairs (France)
Ruth DREIFUSS
Vice President of the Helvetian Confederacy
Head of the Federal Department of Interior (Switzerland)
Pierre-Gilles de GENNES
Nobel Prize Laureate for Physics (France)
Mohamed FRIAA
Telecommunications Minister (Tunisia)
Mohamed KABBAJ
Minister of Finance and Foreign investments (Morocco)
Anne-Marie JORRITSMA-LEBBINK
Minister of Transport and Public works (Netherlands)
Fernando NOGUEIRA
Minister of the Presidency (Portugal)
Maria SCHAUMAYER
Governor of the National Bank of Austria
Professor Ilja PRIGOGINE
Nobel Prize Laureate for Chemistry (Belgium)
Edouard BALLADUR
Former Prime Minister (France)
Azzeddine LARAKI
Former Prime Minister (Morocco)
His Royal Highness
Prince HENRIK (Denmark)
Ephraïm KATZIR
Former President (Israel)
Dominique STRAUSS KAHN
Former Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry (France)
Jack LANG
Former Minister of Culture (France)
Alfonso GUERRA
Vice-President of Spain
Amadou MAHTAR M'BOW
General Director of UNESCO (Senegal)
John KABORE
Former Assistant Director General of UNESCO (Burkina Faso)
Jean-Bernard RAIMOND
Former Foreign Affairs Minister (France)
Catherine TRAUTMANN
Mayor of Strasbourg (France)
Former Minister and Government Spokesman
Soesilo SOEDARMAN
Tourism and Communication Minister (Indonesia)
Jean-Philippe MAITRE
State Council President (Switzerland)
Olivier GUICHARD
Former Minister (France)
Chairman of the Loire Regional Council
Rachid KENICH
Junior Minister in charge of Privatisation (Tunisia)
François BAYROU
Former Education and Research Minister, France (France)
Fikri SAGLAR
Minister of Culture (Turkey)
Ernest-Antoine SEILLIERE
Chairman of MEDEF (the French Employers’ Association)
José ALVEREZ DEL MANZANO
Mayor of Madrid (Spain)
Abderrahanane SAIDI
Minister of Privatisation in charge of Public Companies (Morocco)
Gérard LONGUET
Former Minister of Industry (France)
Jacques CHIRAC
Mayor of Paris (France)
Mohamed GHANNOUCHI
Minister of International Co-operation and Foreign Investment
(Tunisia)
Jean DORE
Mayor of Montreal (Canada)
Christian KONRAD
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Raiffeisen Zentralbank
Österreich AG (Austria)
Mohamed Karim LAMRANI
Former Prime Minister (Morocco)
Jacques TOUBON
Minister of Culture (France)
Klaus Von DOHNANYL
Minister of Culture and Sciences (Germany)
Walter J.P. CURLEY
US Ambassador to France (USA)
Philippe SEGUIN
Post and Telecommunications Minister (France)
Her Royal Highness
Princess CHRISTINA of Sweden
Christian PONCELET
Former Budget Minster (France)
His Royal Highness
Prince BERNHARD of the Netherlands
Miko TRIPALO
Member of the Executive Office of the President (Yugoslavia)
Jacques CHABAN-DELMAS
Prime Minister (France)
Rachid SFAR
Economic Minister (Tunisia)
Jean-Marie RAUCH
Minister of Foreign Trade (France)
Veseko VELVIC
Minister of Culture (Croatia)
Michel LAVALOU
President of Compiègne University of Technology (France)
Pierre Christian TAITTINGER
Senate Vice-President (France)
Teno TZOLOV
Vice-President of the Council of Ministers (Bulgaria)
Maurice SCHUMANN
Member of the French Academy (France)
François MITTERRAND
President of France
Jean-Marie BOCKEL
Minister of Trade (France)
Virginia BOTTEMLEY
Environment Minister (Great Britain)
Michel GIRAUD
Employment Minister (France)
Leo TINDEMANS
Former Prime Minister (Belgium)
Flavio COTTI
Federal Minister and Adviser (Switzerland)
Olivier GISCARD D’ESTAING
Member of Economic and Social Council (France)
Helmut HAUSSMANN
Economic Minister (Germany)
Herman SCHAEFFER
Physicist (United States)
Raymond BARRE
Former Prime Minister (France)
His Royal Highness
Prince CLAUS of the Netherlands
Desmond O’MALLEY
Minister of Industry (Ireland)
François GISCARD D’ESTAING
Former Chairman of Banque Fraçaise du Commerce Extérieur
(France)
Lauro GROSSI
Mayor of Parma (Italy)
Prefect Jean CLAUZEL
Prefect of the Provence-Alpes-Côtes d’Azur Region,
and of Bouches du Rhône (France)
Jean-Claude GAUDIN
Prefect of the Provence-Alpes-Côtes d’Azur Regional
Council (France)
Professor VIGOUROUX
Mayor of Marseilles (France)
Louis JOXE
Former Minister (France)
His Royal Highness
Prince BERTIL (Sweden)
His Royal Highness
Prince BERNHARD (Netherlands)
Fritz HONEGGER
Head of the Federal Department of Public Economy (Switzerland)
Joseph STARIBACHER
Junior Minister of Industry (Austria)
Nurettin SOZEN
Mayor of Istambul (Turkey)
His Majesty
King CARLO XVI (Sweden)
His Most Serene Highness
Prince ALBERT (Monaco)
His Royal Highness
Crown Prince HARALD (Norway)
His Most Serene Highness
Prince RAINIER (Monaco)
Jean CAZENEUVE
Institute de France
Edouard SCHREYER
Governor General of Canada
Fernand ICART
Former Minister of National and Regional Development (France)
Commandant Jacques Cousteau (France)
Kurt FURGLER
President of the Swiss Confederation
Gunnar STRANG
Minister of Finance (Sweden)
Jens HALVARD BRATZ
Minister of Finance (Sweden)
Pierre BEREGOVOY
Economic, Budget and Finance Minister (France)
Klaus LIEBSCHER
President of the Vienna Stock Exchange (Austria)
Ordfoter Albert NORDENGEN
Mayor of Oslo (Norway)
Juvenal HABY-ARIMANA
President of Rwanda
M. BAILEY
Minister of Tourism (France)
André ROSSINOT
Minister of Civil Service, Mayor of Nancy (France)
Hubert CURIEN
Former Minister of Research and Technology (France)
Henri KONAN BEDIE
National Assembly President (Ivory Coast)
Pietro SETTE
President of E.N.I. (Italy)
François d’AUBERT
Junior Minister of Research (France)
Jean CHARBONNEL
Minister of Industry (France)
Her Royal Highness
Princess LOBKROWICZ (Monaco)
M. MATTI
Finnish Ambassador to France (Finland)
Nicole QUESTIAUX
Minister of Social Services and Solidarity (France)
Charles JOSSELIN
County Council Chairman (France)
Louis MERMAZ
Minister of Agriculture (France)
Robert POUJADE
Former Minister (France)
Alfred CAHEN
Belgian Ambassador
Ole BIERRING
Danish Ambassador
Edgar FAURE
National Assembly Chairman (France)
Yaakov MERIDOR
Economic Minister in charge of Co-ordination (Israel)
Gideon PATT
Minister of Trade and Industry (Israel)
Arie GUREL
Mayor of Häifa (Israel)
Mohamed M’ZALI
Prime Minister (Tunisia)
Tano TZOLOV
Vice-President of the Bulgarian council of ministers
André GIRAUD
Former Minister of Industry (France)
Georges CHAVANNES
Minister of Trade (France)
Hans FRIDERICHS
Federal Economic Minister (Germany)
Yousuf al NAFISY
Minister of Trade and Industry (Koweit)
General Marcel BIGEARD (France)
Ben BAREK
Minister of Trade, Industry, Mines and Energy (Tunisia)
Alvaro BARRELO
Minister of Industry and Technology (Netherlands)
Lother SPATH
Premier of the German state of Bavaria
M. BEVEN
Minister, Junior Minister of Economic Affairs (Netherlands)
Rakoto RATSIMAMANGA
Ambassador of the Malagasy Republic to France
Jean CHAMANT
Former Minister, and Senate Vice-President (France)
Sigurd ØSTEN
Minister of Industry (Norway)
Léo HAMON
Junior Minister, and Government Spokesman (France)
M. VAN AARDENNE
Economic Minister (Netherlands)
John BUTCHER
Minister of Industry (Great Britain)
Michel CREPEAU
Minister of Trade (France)
Duncan SANDYS
Former Minister (Great Britain)
François GUILLAUME
Minister of Agriculture (France)
Laszlo ORBAN
Minister of Culture (Hungary)
Pierre MEHAIGNERIE
Minister of Equipment (France)
Michel GLOVER
Minister of Tourism (Madagascar)
Louis LEPENSEC
Minister of Maritime Affairs (France)
Georges MORAITIS
Minister of Trade (Greece)
Vincent ANSQUER
Minister of Trade and the Craft Industry (France)
Frantz Joseph STRAUSS
Former Minister (Germany)
Mr Nicola SANESE
Junior Minister (Italy)
Rafael CABELLO DE ALBA
Minister of Finance (Spain)
Jacques BARROT
Minister of Health (France)
Vicente MORTES
Minister of Housing (Spain)
Sery GNOLEBA
Junior Minister (Ivory Coast)
Mathieu EKRA
Junior Minister (Ivory Coast)
Seri GONDEBA
Minister and National Assembly Chairman (Ivory Coast)
Denis BRAKANON
Minister of Agriculture (Ivory Coast)
Maurice HERZOG
Former Sports Minister (France)
Francis FOX
Telecommunications Minister (Canada)
Laurent FABIUS
Minister of Industry (France)
Alain POHER
Senate President (France)
Petar KOSTIC
Federal Economic and Finance Minister (Yugoslavia)
Louis LEPRINCE RINGUET
Member of the French Academy and of the Académie des Sciences
(France)
Bensalem GUESSOUS
Finance Minister (Morocco)
Christian PINEAU
Former Foregin Affairs Minister (France)
M. KASHITA
Minister of Industry (Zambia)
Mrs ALBRECHT
Junior Minister of Trade and Industry (Austria)
Amir ABBASS HOVEYDA
Prime Minister (Iran)
Luis ECHEVERRIA
President of Mexico
Jan-Erik WIKSTROM
Minister of Culture (Sweden)
Karl Axel PIETRI
Energy Minister (Sweden)
Léopold SEDAR SENGHOR
President of Senegal
Mosché DAYAN
Defence Minister (Israel)
Valéry GISCARD D’ESTAING
Finance Minister (France)
Henri SIMONET
Economic Affairs Minister (Belgium)
François-Xavier ORTOLI
Minister of Industrial and Scientific Development (France)
Henri SCHMITT
Vice-President of Council of State (Switzerland)
Grégorio LOPEZ BRAVO
Minister of Industry (Spain)
Alfons GORBACH
Former Prime Minister (Austria)
André COOLS
Deputy Prime Minister (Belgium)
M. HARMEL
Foregin Affairs Minister (Belgium)
Justin RARIVOSON
Economic and Trade Minister (Madagascar)
M. LEBURTON
Economic and Budget Minister (Belgium)
Foued MEBAZAA
Minister of Health (Tunisia)
José Maria LOPEZ DE LETONA
Minister of Industry (Spain)
Jean-Pascal DELAMURAZ
Senior Member of the State and National Council (Switzerland)
Mihai SUDER
Minister of the Wood Industry (Rumania)
Americo THOMAZ
President of Portugal
Alan WILLIAMS
Minister of Industry (Great Britain)
Akira MATSUI
Japanese Ambassador to France
Robert BOULIN
Minister of Health and Social Security (France)
Erling JENSEN
Trade Minister (Denmark)
Rune HOHANSSON
Minister of Industry (Sweden)
Nello CELIO
President of the Helvetian Confederacy (Switzerland)
Hallvard EIKA
Trade Minister (Norway)
Her Royal Highness
Princess MARGARETHE of Denmark
Her Royal Highness
MARGRETHE DE BOURBON of Parme
Julio SALVADOR Y DIAZ BENJUMEA
Aviation Minister (Spain)
M. NICOLAE
Junior Minister at the Foreign Trade Ministry (Rumania)
Emil LUDVIGER
Minister and Member of the Federal Executive Council (Yugoslavia)
Antonio GUILLOTTI
Minister for State Participation (Italy)
Ahmed OSMAN
Prime Minister of the Government of his Majesty HASSAN II (Morocco)
Sandor BETLEJ
Deputy Minister of Metallurgical and Mechanical Industries (Rumania)
Günther APEL
Senator and Mayor of Hamburg (Germany)
Ingvald ULVESETH
Minister of Industry (Norway)
Anton VRATUSA
Vice-President of Executive Council (Yugoslavia)
Ilie VERDET
First Vice-President of Council of Ministers (Rumania)
Robert GALLEY
Equipment Minister (France)
Gaston DEFERRE
Deputy and Mayor of Marseilles (France)
Georges André CHEVALLAZ
Federal Adviser, Minister of Finance (Switzerland)
Tadeuz WRZASZCZYK
Minister of Machine Constructions (Poland)
Jacques DUHAMEL
Minister of Culture (France)
Mr. SHARIFI
Education Minister (Iran)
Mr. ADBESSELAM
Minister of Industry (Algeria)
Alain BORNER
Senior Member of the State Council and Councillor for the Geneva
Canton (Switzerland)
Mr. WESTERTERP
Minister of Transport and Public Works (Netherlands)
Her Majesty
Princess Paola (Belgium)
Dragoljub STAVREV
Federal Executive Council Vice-president (Yugoslavia)
Louis TERRENOIRE
Former Minister (France)
Paul FISCHER
Danish Ambassador to France (Denmark)
Claude COULAIS
Junior Minister at the Ministry of Industry (France)
Jean-Pierre FOURCADE
Equipment Minister (France)
Luc VAN DEN BRANDE
Head of the Flemish Government (Belgium)
Angelo CASTELLI
Deputy Minister of Participation (Italy)
Marcel ACHARD
Member of the French Academy (France)
Bernard EHUI
Minister of Industry (Ivory Coast)
Margareth TATCHER
Junior Minister (Great Britain)
Léon KONAN KOFFI
Interior Minister (Ivory Coast)
Alfons GOPPEL
Premier of the German State of Bavaria
Vanie BITRA
Employment Minister (Ivory Coast)
Joao DIAS ROSAS
Finance Minister (Portugal)
Maurice LEVY
Physicist (France)
Baltazar REBELLO DE SOUSA
Minister of Co-operation (Portugal)
Peter VERESS
Hungarian Ambassador
Rui Manuel de MEDEIROS D’ESPINEY
Foreign Affairs Minister (Portugal)
Amiral Jean EMERY
Marine Controller General (France)
Mr STICKER
Former Foreign Affairs Minister (Netherlands)
Abdelkamel RAGHAYE
Minister of Trade and Industry (Morocco)
Kone ABDOULAYE
Finance Minister (Ivory Coast)
Jacqueline AURIOL
Aviator (France)
Antonio Manuel GONCALVES RAPAZOTE
Interior Minister (Portugal)
Carlos de AMARAL NETO
National Assembly President (Portugal)
Doctor Alain BOMBARD (France)
Michel-Maurice BOKANOWSKI
Former Minister (France)
Mr VERESHCHAGIN
Physicist (Russia)
Mr REZA
Iranian Ambassador to UNESCO
Eric TABARLY (France)
Marquis DEAMBROSIS-MARTINS
Writer and Ambassador of Honduras to UNESCO
Gracia MONCO
Minister of Industry (Spain)
Carlo LAMPRECHT
President of the Department of Economy, Employment and External
Affairs (Switzerland)
Chakib KHELIL
Ministry of Energy and Mines (Algeria)
Renaud MUSELIER
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (France)
Christian ESTROSI
Former Mayor of Nice, secretary of ultramarine and secretary of state of the economy
(France)
Hervé NOVELLI
Secretary of State for the Foreign Trade
(France)
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