{"id":12172,"date":"2024-03-06T09:46:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T14:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=12172"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:56:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:56:47","slug":"marc-kielburger","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/marc-kielburger\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Kielburger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Marc Kielburger\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Marc-Kielburger-160x187.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Marc-Kielburger-160x187.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Marc-Kielburger-200x234.png 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Marc-Kielburger.png 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Marc Kielburger was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2 p.m. ceremony on Wednesday, June 6, \u201cin recognition of exemplary leadership in the promotion of rights of the child and promotion of ethical living and social responsibility.\u201d<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark Kielburger is the co-founder, along with his brother Craig, of Free The Children, an international organization that delivers innovative programming to youth internationally. Marc is also the co-founder and co-CEO of Me to We, which provides people with better choices for a better world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, completing a degree in international relations and won a coveted Rhodes Scholarship and went on to complete a law degree at Oxford University. Marc has<br>\nreceived six honorary degrees for his work in the field of education and human rights. Along with his brother Craig, Marc writes Global Voices, a weekly column about pressing issues of our time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marc is also a New York Times bestselling author who has written seven books, including his latest called Living Me to We: The Guide for Socially Conscience Canadians. He is the recipient of many honours, including the Order of Canada and he was selected by the World Economic Forum as one of 250 Young Global Leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dgGki9EAU0o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF Marc Kielburger<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Kielburger was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2 p.m. ceremony on Wednesday, June 6, \u201cin recognition of exemplary leadership in the promotion of rights of the child and promotion of ethical living and social responsibility.\u201d Mark Kielburger is the co-founder, along with his brother Craig, of Free The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":340,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-12172","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13544,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12172\/revisions\/13544"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=12172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}