2nd, UC Distinguished Visiting Professors
UC DISTINGUISHED VISITING PROFESSORS
Lord George Carey, Former Archbishop of the Canterbury, UC Distinguished Visiting Professor
· Professor Katherine Marshall, Professor at Georgetown University and Former Vice President of the World Bank, UC Distinguished Professor.
Honorary DOCTORAL Degree Recipients IN 2006
His Excellency SOK AN
H.E. Sok An was born on 16 April 1950 in Kompong village, Preah Bat Chuan Chum commune, Kirivong district, Takeo province, Cambodia. He completed High School in 1967, and then went to University in Phnom Penh, graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Geography, History and Sociology in 1972; in the same year, he also received a Senior Pedagogy Diploma. Thereafter, in 1974-5, he attended the National School of Administration, where he majored in Diplomacy.
In 1981, he was appointed Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Thereafter, in 1983, he took the position of Secretary General of the Cambodian National Peace Committee. In 1985, he was nominated as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Cambodia to India. Subsequently, he was appointed Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1988. In 1991, he was nominated Director of Cabinet of the Central Committee of the Cambodian People’s Party and Vice Minister of Interior; and also Secretary General of the Cambodian People’s Party's component of the Supreme National Council.
As a result of the UNTAC elections in 1993, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Takeo constituency, a post which he has held until the present day. He was also appointed as Co-Minister in charge of the Office of the Council of Minister. Thereafter, in 1998, he was appointed as Senior Minister, and then, in 2004, as Deputy Prime Minister. In addition, since 1998, he has also served as Minister in charge of the Office of the Council of Ministers, the cabinet and administrative hub of the Royal Government of Cambodia.
As Chairman of the Royal Government of Cambodia Task Force for Cooperation with Foreign Legal Experts and Preparation of the Proceedings for the Trial of Senior Khmer Rouge Leaders (established in 1999), he played an important role in getting the support of the United Nations for setting up the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for the Prosecution of Crimes Committed during the Period of Democratic Kampuchea (established in law by the Cambodian National Assembly in 2001 for the prosecution of the senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime and those held most responsible for the serious crimes committed in the period 1975-9).In his capacity as Minister in charge of the Office of the Council of Ministers, he also heads the Accreditation Committee of Cambodia (ACC), a body set up in 2003 with the support of the World Bank to reform and standardize higher education in Cambodia, including the introduction of a Foundation Year program for all new undergraduate students.
H.E. Sok An is married with one daughter and four sons. In recognition of his public work, he has been conferred with an Honorary Doctorate in Law from Wesleyan College (Iowa, USA; 1996), and an Honorary Doctorate in Public Administration from Jeonju University (Korea; 2005); as well as being elected an Academician in Natural Science in Russia (2002).
CITATION: H.E. Sok An is being honored here in recognition of his many contributions to the development of Cambodia.
PROFESSOR KATHERINE MARSHALL
After completing her undergraduate degree in History at Wellesley College in 1967, Katherine Marshall did her Master's in Public Administration at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University, graduating in 1969. The following year, she received an MA in History from the same university.
She worked with the World Bank over the period 1971 to 2006, where she was actively involved as a 'front-line operator' to help put remotely-conceived development plans into action. Thus, after assignments working on Eastern Africa (1979-86) and Latin America (1986-90), she served as the Bank's Country Director in various African nations, implementing programs in the Sahel region (1990-4) and Southern Africa (1994-6). Subsequently, as Director for Social Policy and Governance in the East Asia and Pacific Region (1997-2000), she helped to mould and implement the World Bank's initiatives to minimize the impact of the East Asian financial crisis.
Much of her work in these various postings centered on social policy and governance. Thus, she dealt with issues related to civil society, including those arising out of preconceptions about gender. The consistent thrust of her work was the fight against poverty, together with the absolute need to combat the hemorrhaging effects of corruption on the evolutionary development of afflicted societies. As a result, she has been playing an active role in the World Bank's efforts towards trying to achieve the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Reflecting her interests and experience, she was appointed in 2000 by the then president of the World Bank, James D. Wolfensohn, as Director for Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics. She thus served as counselor to the president on issues involving ethics, values, rights, and faith in development work: this reflects the recent growing realization that development institutions like the World Bank share common goals with religious traditions in the alleviation of poverty and its attendant problems; and that there is the need for a symbiotic dialogue between these two in order to maximize the benefits from their working together synergistically. As part of her remit, she was charged with the setting up of the World Faiths Development Dialogue: a body which seeks to promote networking and a constructive dialogue – whilst overcoming the many prejudicial barriers – between (secular) development institutions and religious institutions, so that their common goals of reducing poverty and human suffering can be best realized.
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs,
and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Government.
She has spoken and published extensively on international development, including Mind, Heart and Soul in the Fight Against Povertyshe was a visiting scholar at the Harvard Institute for International Development in 1997. In addition, she was appointed a trustee of Princeton University in 2005, where she has served on the Advisory Council for the Woodrow Wilson School. She is also a co-moderator of the Fes Forum (part of the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music); a member of the Council of 100 (a World Economic Forum initiative to promote understanding between the Islamic World and the West; a member of the Board of Advisors of the Intercultural Dialogue and Diplomacy Institute of Al Akhawayn University, Morocco; and a Board member of Pathfinder International, the Global Fund for Women, the International Development Ethics Association and various other non-governmental organizations. (World Bank, 2004); and
CITATION: Professor Marshall is being honored here in recognition of her many contributions to global development and the promotion of human understanding. Thus the citation for an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities reads:
MR PAUL W. HENG
o She has sought to educate and enlighten those in the developed world about the need for concerted action to improve living standards in the rest of the world.
o She has sought to foster links between developmental institutions and traditional religions, and to remove suspicion and misunderstanding, so that all can work towards common goals.
o She has shown empathy and foresight in trying to help improve the lives of the poor in developing countries, through helping them to help themselves.
In 2006, she was appointed a senior advisor at the World Bank, and joined the faculty of Georgetown University, as both a senior fellow at the newly-established
o He has sought to improve and standardize the Higher Education System in Cambodia, through the work of the ACC.
o He has sought to obtain justice for the victims of the Khmer Rouge era, both for those who died and the survivors.
o He has sought to establish and strengthen Cambodia's relations with other countries in the region and elsewhere.
o He has sought to improve the lot in life of his constituents and other Cambodians.
