CEU President and Rector Michael Ignatieff was appointed to the Order of Canada Dec. 30, the country's highest honor. Ignatieff was recognized for his “contributions to the advancement of knowledge as a human-rights scholar and reporter.”
Ignatieff was among 100 appointments announced Friday by Governor-General David Johnston. Appointees included playwrights, business executives, opera singers and scientific researchers. The Order was established by the Queen in 1967. Read about the 2016 honorees here.
Born in Canada, educated at the University of Toronto and Harvard, Michael Ignatieff is a university professor, writer and former politician. His major publications are The Needs of Strangers (1984), Scar Tissue (1992), Isaiah Berlin (1998), The Rights Revolution (2000), Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (2001), The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2004), and Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics (2013).
Between 2006 and 2011, he served as an MP in the Parliament of Canada and then as Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition. He is a member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada and holds 11 honorary degrees.
Between 2012 and 2015 he served as Centennial Chair at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs in New York. Between 2014 and 2016 he was Edward R. Murrow Professor of the Practice of the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School before becoming President and Rector of CEU in September 2016.
Read interviews with Michael Ignatieff and his recent writings at https://www.ceu.edu/news/rector and http://michaelignatieff.ca/.
