Koichiro Matsuura

Koichiro Matsuura

male
Kōichirō Matsuura (b. 29 September, 1937 in Tokyo) is the current Director-General of UNESCO. He was first elected in 1999 to a six-year term and re...
Federico Mayor

Federico Mayor

male, 75 years old
Federico Mayor Zaragoza (b. 1934 in Barcelona) is a Spanish scholar and politician. He served as Director-General of UNESCO from 1987 to 1999....
Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow

Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow

male, 88 years old
Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Senegalese educator. M'bow was also the director-general of UNESCO 1974-1987. He called the Commission over the Problems of...
Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley

male, deceased (1975)
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, FRS (June 22, 1887 - February 14, 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, author, humanist and internationalist,...

René Maheu

male, deceased (1975)
René Gabriel Eugene Maheu, a close friend of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, was a French professor of philosophy and the sixth D...
Jaime Torres Bodet

Jaime Torres Bodet

male, deceased (1974) (Mexico)
Jaime Torres Bodet was a prominent Mexican politician and writer who served in the executive cabinet of three Presidents of Mexico. A native of...
Vittorino Veronese

Vittorino Veronese

male, deceased (1986)
Vittorino Veronese was Director-General of UNESCO from 1958 to 1961. With a doctorate in law and as an anti-fascist lawyer, he quickly took an...
Luther H. Evans

Luther H. Evans

male, deceased (1981)
Luther Harris Evans (October 13, 1902 - December 23, 1981) was an American political scientist and Librarian of Congress. Evans was born in...
John Wilkinson Taylor

John Wilkinson Taylor

male, deceased (2001)
John Wilkinson Taylor (1906 - 2001) was a U.S. educator. He served as the acting director general of UNESCO between 1952 and 1953, following the...