What is Federico Mayor Zaragoza?
[[Image:Federico Mayor Zaragoza 1-1.jpg|thumb|right|At the Universidad Internacional de Andalucia in 2007.]] '''Federico Mayor Zaragoza''' (27 January 1934 &ndash; 19 December 2024) was a [[Spain|Spanish]] scientist, scholar, politician, diplomat, and poet. He served as Director-General of [[UNESCO]] from 1987 to 1999. He was born in [[Barcelona]]. Mayor Zaragoza is the Chairman of the [[Foundation for a Culture of Peace]] and member of the Honorary Board of the [[International Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World]]<ref>The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the first decade of the 21st century and the third millennium, the years 2001 to 2010, as the [[International Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World]]. This followed resolutions about the [[International Year for the Culture of Peace]] and the International Day of Peace.</ref> as well as the Honorary Chairman of the Académie de la Paix.<ref>See the website of Peace Academy at http://www.peace-academy.ch/fr/index.php {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830221950/http://www.peace-academy.ch/fr/index.php |date=2011-08-30 }}</ref> He was elected a member of the [[Academia Europaea]] in 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Mayor_Federico |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104806/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Mayor_Federico |title=Federico Mayor|publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> Mayor Zaragoza died in [[Madrid]] on 19 December 2024, at the age of 90.<ref>{{cite news |title=» España Muere Federico Mayor Zaragoza, exministro de Educación y ex director general de la Unesco |url=https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20241219/muere-federico-mayor-zaragoza-exministro-educacion-unesco/16379808.shtml |access-date=19 December 2024 |publisher=RTVE |date=19 December 2024}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mayor Zaragoza, Federico}} [[Category:1934 births]] [[Categor