Amadou Mahtar M'Bow

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Senegalese politician (1921-2024)

PoliticiansLived 1921 to 2024 · aged 103

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Fame50.5

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Languages25

In century#46,870

Also inDeutsch

Photos 2

Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow in 2008

Awards 18

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

Connected to Amadou 6

Martti AhtisaariAlso won Zamenhof award

Victor SadovnichyAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Belgrade

Anerood JugnauthAlso won honorary doctor of the Paul Cézanne University

Óscar Andrés Rodríguez MaradiagaAlso won honorary doctorate from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

Juan Ignacio Cirac SasturáinAlso won honorary doctor of the University Polytechnic of Catalonia

Antonino ZichichiAlso won honorary doctor of the Peking University

About this person

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.