Doctor Honoris Causa

The SNSPA academic community includes international personalities who have played a special role in promoting and developing research areas relevant for SNSPA.

Among the honorary members of the academic community of our university there are SNSPA Doctor Honoris Causa holders:

• Lord George Robertson of Port Ellen
  NATO Secretary General (2003);
• Vladimir Tismăneanu
  Professor of Political Sciences at Maryland University, USA (2003);
• Ion Iliescu
  President of Romania (2004);
• Peter Schieder
  President of the European Council Parliament (2004);
• Lord Anthony Giddens
  Professor of Sociology at Cambridge University, Great Britain (2007);
• Jonathan Scheele
  Director of Trans-European Transport Networks in the General Directorate for Energy and Transport within the European Commission (2009);
• Francisco Aldecoa Luzarraga
  Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain (2009);
• Geert Bouckert
  Director of the Public Management Institute, Leuven, Belgium, (2010);
• Jan Sadlak
  Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Academy of Social and Humanity Studies in Warsaw, Poland (2010);
• Irina Bokova
  UNESCO General Director (2011);
• Mugur Isărescu
  Governor of the National Bank of Romania (2011);
• Jamie Shea
  Deputy assistant to the NATO Secretary General for emerging security threats (2011);
• Martin Schulz
  President of the European Parliament (2012);
• Lee B. Becker
  Cox International Centre Director, University of Georgia (2012);
• Nicolae Manolescu
  Romania’s Ambassador to UNESCO (2012);
• Dominique Wolton
  Director of the Institute of Communication Sciences from the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris (2013);
• Guy Verhofstadt
  Leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) in the European Parliament (2013);
• Florin Georgescu
  Prime Vice-Governor of the National Bank of Romania (2013);
• Mihai Tănăsescu
  Vice-president of the European Investment Bank (EIB) (2013).