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Amadou Mahtar M'Bow

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Senegalese politician (1921-2024)

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Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow GCIH was a Senegalese civil servant and Director-General of UNESCO. M'bow served in France and North Africa during World War II after volunteering for the French Army, also serving with the Free French, and finally in the French Air Force.

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2017Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry
2011Commander of the Legion of Honour
1987honorary doctor of the University Polytechnic of Catalonia
1986Zamenhof award
1983honorary doctor of the Peking University
1982honorary doctorate at the Laval University
1982honorary doctor of the Paul Cézanne University
1981Gold Olympic Order
1979Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise
1976honorary doctorate
1975honorary doctor of the University of Sherbrooke
1975honorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
Grand Cross of the Order of the Southern Cross
Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru‎
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
Commander of the French Order of Academic Palms
honorary doctorate from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
honorary doctor of the University of Belgrade

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Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow GCIH was a Senegalese civil servant and Director-General of UNESCO. M'bow served in France and North Africa during World War II after volunteering for the French Army, also serving with the Free French, and finally in the French Air Force. After the end of the war, he studied geography at the Sorbonne University in Paris. He served at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris from 1953 to 1987.

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Lived 1921 to 2024 · aged 103
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