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NOVA to grant its 100th Honoris Causa Doctorate to the President of Colombia - June 20, 2017

20 June 2017
Local: 
Auditório da Reitoria da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

 

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa is granting its 100th Honoris Causa Doctorate title to Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, the President of the Republic of Colombia.

The ceremony will take place on June 20, at 2:30 pm, in the Rectorate’s Auditorium, in Campolide Campus.

Juan Manuel Santos Calderón studied Economics and Business Management at The University of Kansas and did post-graduation courses at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Harvard University. Before being elected President of Colombia, he was the Minister of Foreign Trade, Minister of Finance and Public Credit and Minister of Defense in Colombia. He  also created the Buen Gobierno Foundation and founded  Partido de la U in 2005. He received the King of Spain Prize and was President of the Freedom of Expression Commission for the Inter American Press Association. For his persistance and efforts to achieve a peace agreement with FARC and to call on Colombia’s reconciliation, he was distinguished in 2016 with Nobel Peace Prize.

Director and Tutor: Prof. Doutor Daniel Traça

Speaker: Prof.ª Doutora Teresa Pizarro Beleza

 

PROGRAM

Auditorium

•  Academic procession enters the Auditorium

• Speaker gives his speech

• Conferment of Honorary Title

• NOVA Choir performance

• Rector gives his speech

• Ceremony ends with the exit of the academic procession 

Atrium

• Greetings session and cocktail