James Jude Orbinski is Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Toronto and a

Fellow at the Munk Centre for International Studies. He was the President of the French
Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) at the time the organization
received the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of the organizations pioneering
humanitarian work on several continents.

Aung San Suu Kyi is a non-violent prodemocracy activist and leader of the National
League for Democracy in Myanmar (Burma), and a noted prisoner of conscience. In
1991, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her non-violent struggle for
democracy and human rights.

Temzin Gyatso has held the position of 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet since November 1950.
The Dalai Lama is the most important Tibetan Buddhist and political leader. He was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1989, for his work in the struggle for the liberation of
Tibet through a peaceful solution.

Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity
and ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying in Calcutta, India, for more than
forty years. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work.

Kofi Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of

the United Nations from January 1st, 1997 to January 1st, 2007, serving two five-year
terms. In 2001, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the UN and to Kofi Annan for
their work for a better organized and more peaceful world.

Wangari Maathai is an environmental and political activist from Kenya. In 2004, she
became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to
sustainable development, democracy and peace.

Nelson Mendela is the former President of South Africa, and the first to be elected in
fully representative democratic elections. Before his presidency, Mandela was an antiapartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress. He spent nearly three
decades in prison for his struggle against apartheid. In 1993, Nelson Mendela and
Frederik Willem de Klerk were awarded the Nobel Prize Prize for their work for the
peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new
democratic South Africa.