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Honorary title

Docteur honoris causa de Sciences Po

Sciences Po building (IEP de Paris), at 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, in Paris (illustrative image of the conferring institution; it does not show the ceremony).
Sciences Po building (IEP de Paris), at 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, in Paris (illustrative image of the conferring institution; it does not show the ceremony).Image: Celette (Wikimedia Commons), CC BY-SA

Documentary record

Lula appears on Sciences Po's official list of honoris causa doctors, in the year 2011.[1]

The title was granted in 2011 (exact day pending).[2]

Specific rationale not published on the page read. According to the Sciences Po page, the title is conferred on personalities of foreign nationality in view of eminent services rendered to the arts, letters, sciences and techniques, to France, or to the institution that confers the title.[3]

Sources and evidence

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  1. 1. Lula appears on Sciences Po's official list of honoris causa doctors, in the year 2011.

    • Doctorats honoris causa | Sciences Po · Sciences Po Granting institution
      Where: list by year, block "2011". Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “2011 Duncan Kennedy (Harvard University) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, dit Lula (ancien président de la République fédérative du Brésil) Helen Wallace (LSE)”

  2. 2. The title was granted in 2011 (exact day pending).

    • Doctorats honoris causa | Sciences Po · Sciences Po Granting institution
      Where: list by year, block "2011". Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “2011 Duncan Kennedy (Harvard University) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, dit Lula (ancien président de la République fédérative du Brésil)”

  3. 3. Specific rationale not published on the page read. According to the Sciences Po page, the title is conferred on personalities of foreign nationality in view of eminent services rendered to the arts, letters, sciences and techniques, to France, or to the institution that confers the title.

    • Doctorats honoris causa | Sciences Po · Sciences Po Granting institution
      Where: paragraph on decree No. 2013-756. Accessed October 13, 2026.
      “le titre de docteur honoris causa est conféré par le président de l'université ou par le directeur de l'établissement public à caractère scientifique, culturel et professionnel, à des personnalités de nationalité étrangère en raison de services éminents rendus aux arts, aux lettres, aux sciences et techniques, à la France ou à l'établissement qui décerne le titre.”