Federico Mayor Zaragoza

At the Universidad Internacional de Andalucia in 2007.

Federico Mayor Zaragoza (27 January 1934 – 19 December 2024) was a Spanish scientist, scholar, politician, diplomat, and poet. He served as Director-General of UNESCO from 1987 to 1999. He was born in Barcelona.

Mayor Zaragoza is the Chairman of the Foundation for a Culture of Peace and member of the Honorary Board of the International Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World^[1] as well as the Honorary Chairman of the Académie de la Paix.^[2]

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1993.^[3]

Mayor Zaragoza died in Madrid on 19 December 2024, at the age of 90.^[4]

References

1. The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the first decade of the 21st century and the third millennium, the years 2001 to 2010, as the International Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World. This followed resolutions about the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the International Day of Peace.
2. See the website of Peace Academy at http://www.peace-academy.ch/fr/index.php Archived 2011-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
3. "Federico Mayor". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
4. "» España Muere Federico Mayor Zaragoza, exministro de Educación y ex director general de la Unesco". RTVE. 19 December 2024. Retrieved 19 December 2024.