The Sir Brian Urquhart Award is given annually by the United Nations Association – UK for distinguished service to the United Nations. The award celebrates Urquhart’s work on behalf of the UN and is presented to individuals whose own efforts reflect his contribution.
Urquhart was the second person recruited to the UN Secretariat in 1945 and worked with the Executive Committee of the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations to establish the administrative framework of the organisation that had been created by the U.N. Charter. Having served at the United Nations for four decades, Urquhart undertook the direction of peacekeeping operations, in the Middle East, Cyprus, Kashmir, Lebanon and the Congo. Urquhart retired in 1986 at the rank of Under-Secretary-General. He is currently a member of UNA-UK's expert advisory panel.
Recipients Past recipients of the award include: 2011: Dame Margaret Anstee 2012: Sir Richard Jolly 2013: Ian Martin 2014: Lynn Davies 2015: Lord Hannay of Chiswick 2016: Christine Chinkin 2017: Lord Judd of Portsea 2018: Purna Sen 2019: Andrew Gilmour 2020: Zeinab Badawi 2021: Nisreen Elsaim and Maria Fernanda Espinosa 2022: Clare Short 2023: Comfort Ero 2024: Charles Petrie
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