The IIASA Council, wishing to honor outstanding contributions made to the development of the Institute and to the advancement of its objectives, created in November 1975 (Council resolution 35) the award "IIASA Honorary Scholar" to be conferred by unanimous Council decision for exemplary dedication to the Institute's ideals and distinguished scholarly achievement.
2000-2023
- Michael Clegg (11-2023)
- Ninh Khac Ban (06-2023)
- Xincheng Xie (06-2023)
- Aldo Stroebel (06-2023)
- Jim Hall (06-2023)
- Albert van Jaarsveld (06-2023)
- Lea Kauppi (11-2022)
- Moti Herskowitz (11-2022)
- Kirsten Broch Mathisen (06-2022)
- Ingrid Petersson (06-2022)
- Eaman Eftekhary (06-2022)
- Leena Srivastava (06-2022)
- Gansen Pillay (11-2021)
- Heloisa Hollnagel (11-2021)
- Enrique de Alba (11-2020)
- Anatoly Zagorodny (11-2020)
- Mauro Rabelo (06-2020)
- Duncan Wingham (06-2020)
- Mary Scholes (11-2019)
- Asma Ismail (11-2019)
- Jung-Hye Roe (06-2019)
- Nosratollah Zargham (06-2019)
- Concepta McManus Pimentel (06-2019)
- Nebojsa Nakicenovic (06-2019)
- Moo Je Cho (11-2018)
- Stan Gielen (11-2018)
- Gerhard Glatzel (11-2018)
- Alexei Gvishiani (11-2018)
- Congqiang Liu (11-2018)
- Prabhat Ranjan (11-2018)
- Pavel Kabat (11-2018)
- Don Saari (06-2017)
- Ahmad Tajuddin Ali (06-2017)
- Jos Engelen (11-2016)
- Carlos Nobre (06-2016)
- Mats Gyllenberg (06-2015)
- Peter Lemke (11-2014)
- Jie Wang (06-2014)
- Arild Underdal (11-2013)
- Anna Ledin (11-2013)
- Maged Al-Sherbiny (11-2013)
- Adil Najam (11-2013)
- Kirit Parikh (06-2013)
- Simon Levin (10-2012)
- Mahmoud Sakr (10-2012)
- Boris Paton (06-2012)
- Ishfaq Ahmad (06-2012)
- Markku Mattila (06-2012)
- Detlof von Winterfeldt (11-2011)
- Kenji Yamaji (11-2011)
- Olgierd Hryniewicz (06-2011)
- Rolf Annerberg (11-2010)
- Kurt Komarek (11-2009)
- Sten Nilsson (11-2008)
- Pentti Vartia (11-2008)
- Peter Nijkamp (11-2008)
- Arkadii Maltsev (11-2008)
- Leen Hordijk (05-2008)
- Bert Bolin (06-2007)
- Karin Refsnes (11-2006)
- Lisa Sennerby-Forsse (11-2006)
- Michal Szulczewski (11-2005)
- Jill Jäger (06-2004)
- Gordon Wolman (11-2003)
- Yuri Osipov (11-2003)
- Georgy Zavarzin (06-2003)
- Arne Jernelöv (06-2002)
- Pekka Kauppi (06-2001)
- Gordon MacDonald (11-2000)
- Dick van de Kaa (06-2000)
1975-1999
- Creation of IIASA Honorary Scholar Award (11-1975)
- Harison Brown (11-1975)
- Helmut Koziolek (11-1975)
- Howard Raiffa (11-1975)
- Sir Kingsley Dunham (11-1977)
- George Hammond (06-1978)
- Jacques Lesourne (11-1979)
- Andrei Bykov (11-1979)
- Tibor Vasko (11-1980)
- Friedrich Schneider (06-1981)
- Pieter de Wolff (11-1981)
- Wolf Häfele (11-1981)
- Roger Levien (11-1981)
- David Davidov (06-1982)
- Carl Gustav Jennergren (11-1982)
- Leopold Schmetterer (11-1983)
- Jan Gabel (11-1983)
- C.S. (Buzz) Holling (06-1984)
- Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker (06-1984)
- Hertha Firnberg (06-1984)
- Karl Bichtler (11-1984)
- Istvan Lang (06-1985)
- Koichi Miyasawa (12-1985)
- Anders Karlqvist (12-1985)
- Chester Cooper (12-1985)
- Michael Kirby (11-1986)
- Gerhart Bruckmann (03-1987)
- Jermen Gvishiani (06-1987)
- Philip Handler (06-1987)
- Thomas Lee (11-1987)
- Jean-Pierre Ayrault (11-1987)
- Robert Munn (11-1988)
- Wouter Tims (06-1989)
- Robert Pry (11-1990)
- Helge Gyllenberg (11-1990)
- Harvey Brooks (11-1990)
- Wolfgang Schirmer (11-1990)
- Ladislav Kubicek (11-1990)
- Fritz Paschke (06-1991)
- Bo Döös (11-1991)
- Vladimir Mikhalevich (05-1992)
- Alexander Kurzhanski (05-1992)
- Guido Torrigiani (11-1992)
- Arpad Csurgay (06-1993)
- Nathan Keyfitz (11-1993)
- Jan Borgman (11-1993)
- Robert White (11-1993)
- Jan Kaczmarek (11-1993)
- Hans Landberg (06-1994)
- Peter de Janosi (06-1996)
- Domokos Kosary (06-1996)
- Gueorgui Golitsyn (06-1997)
- Yoichi Kaya (06-1997)
- Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber (06-1997)
- Risto Seppälä (06-1998)
- John Ahearne (11-1998)
- Susumu Yoda (06-1999)
- Pal Michelberger (11-1999)