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23 results
| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Danny Danon | Danny Danon | 1971 | n/a | null | elected as chair of the UN’s Legal Committee, the first Israeli to ever hold the position | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Danon |
| Audrey Azoulay | Audrey Azoulay | 1972 | n/a | French | civil servant and politician who has been serving as the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) since 2017, becoming the second female leader of the organization | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Azoulay |
| Anthony Lake | William Anthony Kirsopp Lake | 1939 | n/a | American | diplomat and political advisor who served as the 18th United States National Security Advisor from 1993 to 1997 and as the 6th Executive Director of UNICEF from 2010 to 2017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Lake |
| Hillel Neuer | Hillel C. Neuer | 1969 | 1970 | Canadian | international lawyer, writer, and the executive director of UN Watch, a human rights NGO and UN watchdog group based in Geneva, Switzerland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_Neuer |
| Harold Glasser | Harold Glasser | 1905 | 1992 | null | economist in the United States Department of the Treasury and spokesman on the affairs of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) 'throughout its whole life' and he had a 'predominant voice' in determining which countries should receive aid | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Glasser |
| Stanley Aronowitz | Stanley Aronowitz | 1933 | 2021 | null | professor of sociology, cultural studies, and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Aronowitz |
| Phyllis Chesler | Phyllis Chesler | 1940 | n/a | American | writer, psychotherapist, and professor emerita of psychology and women's studies at the College of Staten Island (CUNY) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Chesler |
| Davi Alcolumbre | Davi Samuel Alcolumbre Tobelem | 1977 | n/a | Brazilian | politician member of Brazil Union (UNIÃO) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davi_Alcolumbre |
| Matthew Goldstein | Matthew Goldstein | 1941 | n/a | null | former chancellor of the City University of New York (CUNY) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Goldstein |
| Ivry Gitlis | Ivry Gitlis | 1922 | 2020 | Israeli | virtuoso violinist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivry_Gitlis |
| Marcos Moshinsky | Marcos Moshinsky Borodiansky | 1921 | 2009 | Mexican | physicist of Ukrainian-Jewish origin whose work in the field of elementary particles won him the Prince of Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Investigation in 1988 and the UNESCO Science Prize in 1997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcos_Moshinsky |
| Lev Rebet | Lev Rebet | 1912 | 1957 | Ukrainian | political writer and anti-communist during World War II. He was a key cabinet member in the Ukrainian government (backed by Stepan Bandera's faction of OUN) which proclaimed independence on June 30, 1941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Rebet |
| Henry Fuchs | Henry Fuchs | 1948 | n/a | null | fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Federico Gil Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fuchs |
| Rebeca Grynspan | Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis | 1955 | n/a | Costa Rican | economist who has been serving as Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) since 13 September 2021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebeca_Grynspan |
| Richard Lachmann | Richard Lachmann | 1956 | 2021 | American | sociologist and specialist in comparative historical sociology who was a professor at University at Albany, SUNY. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lachmann |
| Barbara Katz Rothman | Barbara Katz Rothman | 1948 | n/a | American | interdisciplinary and international City University of New York (CUNY) Professor of Sociology whose work encompasses medical sociology, childbirth and midwifery issues, bioethics, race, disability, food studies, the sociology of knowledge and the interactions between these factors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Katz_Rothman |
| Mitchell Cohen | Mitchell Cohen | null | null | null | author, essayist and critic, He is professor of political science at Baruch College of the City University of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Cohen |
| Bertram Myron Gross | Bertram Myron Gross | 1912 | 1997 | American | social scientist, Federal bureaucrat and Professor of Political Science at Hunter College (CUNY) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertram_Myron_Gross |
| Zina Harman | Zina Harman | 1914 | 2013 | Israeli | politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1969 and 1974 and as Chairman of UNICEF from 1964 to 1966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zina_Harman |
| Jan Heller Levi | Jan Heller Levi | 1954 | n/a | null | poet who teaches at CUNY Hunter College’s MFA Program in Creative Writing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Heller_Levi |
| Deanna Kamiel | Deanna Kamiel | 1946 | 2018 | Canadian | director, documentary film/public TV writer/producer with a career in public broadcasting at the CBC in Toronto and PBS in Minneapolis and professor of film development at SUNY Purchase College and then at The New School, Manhattan, New York City, US. She worked for 26 years (1992–2018) as Head of The New School's Documentary Studies program, Director of Graduate Certificate in Doc Studies Program, and Assistant Professor of Media Studies - School of Media Studies, Manhattan, New York, U.S. Kamiel's documentaries were based on live interviews of the person(s) the film was about | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deanna_Kamiel |
| Simon Bloomberg | Simon Bloomberg | 1894 | 1981 | null | Jewish humanitarian known for his work to resettle the displaced persons of Europe after World War II. He was the UNRRA Director of the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp after World War II and European Director of the Jewish Relief Fund | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Bloomberg |
| Lew Brownstein | Lewis Jacqueline Brownstein | null | null | null | historian, author, and professor along with being the former Chair of the Political Science and International Relations Department at SUNY New Paltz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Brownstein |