Ervin Laszlo

Ervin Laszlo was awarded the state doctorate (the highest PhD) from the Sorbonne, the University of Paris in 1970, and received honorary PhD's from the United States, Canada, Finland, and Hungary. He was the recipient of the Peace Prize of Japan, the Goi Award, in 2001, of the International Mandir of Peace Prize of Assisi in 2005, and of the Luxembourg World Peace Prize in 2017. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005. Laszlo is Founder and President of the Laszlo Institute...See more

Ervin Laszlo was awarded the state doctorate (the highest PhD) from the Sorbonne, the University of Paris in 1970, and received honorary PhD's from the United States, Canada, Finland, and Hungary. He was the recipient of the Peace Prize of Japan, the Goi Award, in 2001, of the International Mandir of Peace Prize of Assisi in 2005, and of the Luxembourg World Peace Prize in 2017. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005. Laszlo is Founder and President of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, President of the think-tank the Club of Budapest, Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, Member of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, Senator of the International Medici Academy, and Editor of the international peer-reviewed periodical World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. He is the author of sixty-six books translated into twenty-six languages, and the editor of another thirty-four volumes including a four-volume encyclopedia. A native of Budapest and a US citizen, he lives with Carita his Finnish-born wife in Tuscany. See less