Honorary Doctors of the HSG

Ever since 1949, the University of St.Gallen has awarded the degree of an Honorary Doctor for outstanding services to academia and practice.

Honorary Doctorates in Economics (Dr. oec. h. c.)

1949	Prof. Dr. Eugen Böhler Professor of Economics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Gottfried Haberler Professor of Economics at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA Dr. Heinrich Homberger Delegate of the Swiss Union of Commerce and Industry (Vorort; now Economiesuisse), Zurich, Switzerland Dr. Carl Moser-Nef Legal historian, St. Gallen, Switzerland
1950	Heinrich Wachter Member of the Executive Board of Volkart Brothers, Winterthur, Switzerland
1951	Paul Alther Director General of the Swiss Reinsurance Company (now Swiss Re), Zurich, Switzerland Dr. Adolf Jöhr Chairman of Swiss Credit Bank (now Credit Suisse), Zurich, Switzerland
1952	Prof. Dr. August Egger Honorary Professor at the University of Zurich, Switzerland Ernst Homberger Chairman of Georg Fischer AG, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
1953	Dr. Hermann Becker Former President of the Commercial Court and the Cantonal Court of St.Gallen, Switzerland Johann Jakob Gabathuler Former member of the cantonal government, St.Gallen, Switzerland Dr. Thomas Holenstein Attorney at Law, St.Gallen, Switzerland Friedrich Hug President of the Kaufmännisches Directorium (now St.Gallen-Appenzell Chamber of Industry and Commerce), St.Gallen, Switzerland
1957	Prof. Dr. Paul Scherrer Professor of Physics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
1958	Curt E. Wild Industrialist, St.Gallen, Switzerland Emil Zaugg Managing Director of Brown, Boveri AG & Cie. (now ABB), Baden, Switzerland
1960	Prof. Dr. Goetz Briefs Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA
1961	Prof. Dr. Ludwig Erhard Former Federal Chancellor, Bonn, Germany
1962	Dr. René Bühler Industrialist, Uzwil, Switzerland
1963	Prof. Dr. Herbert Lüthy Professor of General and Swiss History at ETH Zurich, Switzerland Prof. Fritz Jules Roethlisberger, A.B., B.S., A.M. Professor of Human Relations at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Schönenberger Federal Judge, Lausanne, Switzerland Prof. Dr. Jan Tinbergen Professor of Development Planning at the Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands
1964	Dr. Adolf Graf Chairman of the Central Committee for Final Commercial Apprenticeship Examinations, Winterthur, Switzerland
1967	Prof. Dr. Karl Föhl Professor of the Theory of Economic Policy at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Dr. h. c. Max Schmidheiny Industrialist, Heerbrugg, Switzerland
1968	Dr. Arnold Saxer Former Director of the Federal Social Insurance Office, Berne, Switzerland

Honorary Doctorates in Political Sciences (Dr. rer. publ. h. c.)

1962	Prof. Dr. Zaccaria Giacometti Professor of Public Law at the University of Zurich, Switzerland
1963	Eric Wyndham White, LL.B. Executive Secretary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), Geneva, Switzerland
1967	Prof. Dr. Karl Schmid Professor of German Language and Literature, former Rector of ETH Zurich, Switzerland
1968	Prof. Peter Dürrenmatt Editor, Riehen, Switzerland

Honorary Doctorates in Economics (Dr. oec. h. c.)

1970	Prof. Dr. Peter F. Drucker Professor of Corporate Management at the Graduate School of Business Administration, New York University, USA Prof. Dr. Peter Jäggi Professor of Swiss Civil and Commercial Law at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Krelle Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn, Germany
1971	Prof. Dr. Otto Jaag Professor of Hydrology at ETH Zurich, Switzerland Ernst Keller Industrialist, Lima, Peru
1972	Prof. Dr. Fritz Machlup Former Professor at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
1973	Dr. Walter Berchtold Member of the Management Board of Swissair, Zurich, Switzerland
1974	Dr. Aurelio Peccei Founder and President of the Club of Rome
1977	Alfred Waldis Director of the Swiss Museum of Transport, Lucerne, Switzerland
1978	Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann Director of the Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research, Germany
1979	Dr. Christian Gasser Chairman of Mikron Holding AG, Biel, Switzerland
1982	Prof. Dr. Karl Brunner Professor of Econometrics at the University of Berne, Switzerland
1984	Dr. Max Eisenring Entrepreneur, Chairman of the Swiss Reinsurance Company (now Swiss Re), Zurich, Switzerland
1985	Prof. Dr. Jean-François Bergier Professor of Economic History at ETH Zurich, Switzerland Prof. Arthur Rich Professor of Systematic Theology and Social Ethics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland
1987	Prof. Dr. Oliver E. Williamson Professor of Economics and Social Sciences at Yale University, New Haven, USA
1989	Prof. Dr. Frederic Vester Professor of Biocybernetics and Ecology at the Universität der Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany

Honorary Doctorates in Political Sciences (Dr. rer. publ. h. c.)

1972	Prof. Dr. André Grisel Federal Judge, Lausanne, Switzerland
1973	Hans Hausamann Teufen, Switzerland
1979	Kurt Buchmann Former Chairman of the Citizens’ Council, St.Gallen, Switzerland
1981	Dr. Jean-Jacques Gautier Attorney at Law, Geneva, Switzerland Prof. Dr. Leo Schürmann Former member of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank, Director General of the Swiss Radio and Television Corporation (now SRG SSR), Olten, Switzerland
1982	Prof. Dr. Kurt Eichenberger Professor of Public Law at the University of Basel, Switzerland
1986	Alexandre Hay President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland
1989	Ernst Rüesch Councillor of States, St.Gallen, Switzerland

Honorary Doctorates in Economic and Political Sciences (Dr. rer. pol. h. c.)

1974	Prof. Dr. Johannes Duft Abbey Librarian, St.Gallen, Switzerland
1975	Dr. Dr. h. c. Edgar Bonjour Professor of Swiss History at the University of Basel, Switzerland
1978	Ernst Brugger Former Federal Councillor, Gossau ZH, Switzerland
1983	Prof. Dr. Jean-François Aubert Professor of Constitutional Law and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
1988	François Bondy Publicist, Zurich, Switzerland

Honorary Doctorates in Law (Dr. iur. h. c.)

1984	Prof. Dr. Max Kummer Emeritus Professor of Civil Procedural Law and Commercial Law at the University of Berne, Switzerland
1985	Erwin Schärrer Long-standing Lecturer in Fiscal Law, Switzerland
1987	Dr. Kurt Furgler Former Federal President, St.Gallen, Switzerland
1989	Dr. Otto P. Clavadetscher Historian and legal historian, Trogen, Switzerland

Honorary Doctorates in Economics (Dr. oec. h. c.)

1990	Prof. Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachs Professor at the Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA
1991	Prof. Dr. Frank Achtenhagen Professor of Business Education at Universität Göttingen, Germany Prof. Dr. Gerhard Reber Professor of Management at the University of Linz, Austria Dr. Willy Zeller Deputy Editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung daily newspaper, Zurich, Switzerland
1993	Prof. Dr. Heribert Meffert Professor of Business Administration at the University of Münster, Germany Dr. Dres. h. c. Helmut Schlesinger President of Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany
1994	Prof. Dr. Gérard Gäfgen Professor of Economics at the University of Konstanz, Germany
1995	Prof. Dr. Walter Ernst Masing Pioneer of Quality Management, Germany
1996	Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Werner Kirsch Professor of Business Administration at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
1997	Prof. Dr. Franz-Xaver Kaufmann Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany
1998	Prof. Dr. Bruno S. Frey Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland Prof. Ikujiro Nonaka, Ph.D. Professor at Hitotsubashi University, Japan
1999	Prof. Paul De Grauwe, Ph.D. Professor of Economics at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schürer Founder and long-standing Head of the International Students Committee (ISC), St.Gallen, Switzerland
2000	Prof. Dr. Stafford Beer Professor of Management Cybernetics at the University of Manchester, UK Prof. Dr. Walter Eversheim Professor of Production Systems at RWTH Aachen, Germany Prof. Dr. Wallace E. Oates Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, USA
2001	Prof. David F. Hendry, Ph.D. Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, UK
2002	Prof. Geoffrey Brennan, Ph.D. Professor of Economics at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Arnold Picot Director of the Institute for Information, Organization and Management at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
2003	Prof. Dr. Richard Blundell Professor of Economics at University College London, UK
2004	Prof. Dr. Ernst Fehr Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland Prof. Dr. Karl E. Weick Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology at the University of Michigan Business School, USA
2005	Prof. Dr. Klaus Backhaus Director of the Institute of Business-to-Business Marketing of the University of Münster, Germany Prof. Roger H. Gordon Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, USA
2006	Prof. Michael J. Brennan, Ph.D. Professor of Finance at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA Prof. Olivia S. Mitchell, Ph.D. Professor of Business Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
2007	Prof. Joshua D. Angrist, Ph.D. Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass., USA Prof. Dr. Wolffried Stucky Professor of Business Informatics at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
2008	Prof. Robert H. Frank, Ph.D. Professor of Management and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA Prof. Eric J. Johnson, Ph.D. Professor of Business at the Columbia Business School of the Columbia University, New York, USA
2009	Prof. Gene M. Grossman, Ph.D. Professor of Economics at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA Prof. Michael Power, Ph.D. Professor of Accounting at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Honorary Doctorates in Political Sciences (Dr. rer. publ. h. c.)

1990	Václav Havel Former Czechoslovakian and later Czech President
1992	Albrik Lüthy Former Head of the Disability Insurance Department in the Federal Social Insurance Office, Berne, Switzerland
1998	Elisabeth Pletscher Swiss personality who was actively committed to equal rights for women in education, politics and working life
2001	Prof. Dr. Daniel Thürer Professor of International, European, Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Zurich, Switzerland
2004	Dr. Gret Haller Swiss politician and publicism
2005	Prof. Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Professor of Political Sciences at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA
2006	Dr. Hans Saner Swiss philosopher and publicist
2007	Martti Ahtisaari Former President of Finland
2009	Dr. Marco Mona Attorney at Law, Zurich, Switzerland

Honorary Doctorates in Law (Dr. iur. h. c.)

1992	Prof. Dr. Günter Stratenwerth Professor of Philosophy of Law and of Commercial Law at the University of Basel, Switzerland
1994	Dr. Margrith Bigler-Eggenberger Federal Judge, Lausanne, Switzerland
1995	Prof. Dr. Alain Hirsch Emeritus Professor of Business Law at the University of Geneva, Switzerland
1996	Prof. Dr. Karl Spiro Emeritus Professor of Private Law and History of Law at the University of Basel, Switzerland
1998	Asma Jahangir, LL.B. Attorney at Law, Pakistan
1999	Dr. Helmuth Schröter Professor of Law at Saarland University, Germany
2003	Dr. Yves Donzallaz Attorney at Law and Notary Public, Sion, Switzerland
2004	Dr. Mario Monti President of Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, and EU Competition Commissioner
2005	Dr. Peter Studer President of the Press Council and former CEO of SFDRS Television and of the Tages-Anzeiger daily newspaper, Switzerland
2006	Prof. Dr. Erich Schanze, LL.M. Professor of Civil Law, Comparative Law and International Business Law at Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany
2007	Prof. Dr. Kay Hailbronner, LL.M. Professor of Public Law, European Law and International Law at the University of Konstanz, Germany
2008	Bo Vesterdorf Former President of the Court of the First Instance of the European Communities
2009	Rolf Vetterli Cantonal Judge, St.Gallen, Switzerland

Honorary Doctorates in Economics (Dr. oec. h. c.)

2010	Prof. Dr. Lans Bovenberg Professor of Economics at Tilburg University, Netherlands Prof. Hermann Diller Emeritus Professor of Marketing at Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
2011	Prof. Darrell Duffie, Ph.D. Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business of Stanford University, California, USA Prof. Lars-Hendrik Röller, Ph.D. First Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission, Germany Prof. Boas Shamir, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology at the Hebrew University, Israel
2012	Prof. Richard E. Baldwin, Ph.D. Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland Prof. Francis Koh, Ph.D. Professor of Finance at Singapore Management University Prof. Dr. Friedemann Schulz von Thun Communication expert and author, Hamburg, Germany
2013	Prof. Dr. Günther Gebhardt Professor of Business Administration at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2014	Prof. John Cochrane, Ph.D. Professor of Finance at University of Chicago Booth School of Business, USA Prof. Guido Imbens, Ph.D. Professor of Economics as the Stanford Graduate School of Business, California, USA Prof. Martha S. Feldman, Ph.D. Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Management, Sociology and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, USA
2015	Prof. Anne Tsui, Ph.D. Professor of Management at the Mendoza College of Business of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
2016	Prof. Yakov Amihud, Ph.D. Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at New York University, USA Prof. Ajay K. Kohli, Ph.D. Professor of Marketing at the Schneller College of Business of the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Prof. Peter Wakker, Ph.D. Professor of Behavioural Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
2017	Prof. Robert A. Burgelman, Ph.D. Professor of Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business of Stanford University, California, USA
2018	Prof. Gerry Georg, Ph.D. Professor Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship as well as Dean of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University Prof. Dr. Holger Mueller Professor of Finance at Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
2019	Prof. Ph.D. Ann Tarca

Honorary Doctorates in Political Sciences (Dr. rer. publ. h. c.)

2010	Prof. Michael Barzelay, Ph.D. Professor of Public Management at London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
2011	Dr. Surin Pitsuwan Secretary General of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Thai politician
2013	Prof. Deborah Avant, Ph.D. Director of the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy at the University of Denver, Colorado, USA
2017	Dr. Monika Hauser Physician and founder of medica mondiale
2019	Prof. Dr. Charles Kupchan

Honorary Doctorates in Law (Dr. iur. h. c.)

2010	Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Kirchner, LL.M. Professor of German, European and International Civil and Business Law, as well as Institutional Economics, at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
2011	Avv. Marianne Widmer-Galli Pioneer of mediation in Switzerland, Lugano, Switzerland
2013	Prof. Dr. Joachim Bornkamm Presiding Judge at the German Federal Court and Honorary Professor at Heidelberg University, Germany
2015	Prof. Dr. Fabienne Hohl Federal Judge, Lausanne, Switzerland
2017	Dr. Thomas Hansjakob First Public Prosecutor of the Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland
2019	Prof. Dr. Andreas Kley

Honorary Doctorates in Social Sciences (Dr. rer. soc. h. c.)

2011	Dr. Martin Meyer Journalist and culture editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung daily newspaper, Zurich, Switzerland
2014	Prof. Susan Neiman, Ph.D. Philosopher and Director at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany
2016	Dr. Lilija Fjodorowna Schewzowa Political scientist at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London, UK, and at the Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., USA
2017	Yves Daccord Director General of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland
2019	Prof. Dr. Alice Kaplan