HONORARY DOCTORS
- Francesca Albanese (UA, UGent, VUB) – UN Special Rapporteur
- Prof. Noura Erakat (UA) – International law expert
- Agnes Callamard (VUB) – Secretary General of Amnesty International
- Greta Thunberg (UMons) – Climate Justice and Palestine solidarity activist
- John M Coetzee (VUB) – writer
- Prof. Didier Fassin (ULB, UCLouvain) – Anthropologist
- Prof. Martti Koskenniemi (VUB) – International lawyer and former diplomat
- Prof. Izzeldin Abuelaish (UA, UCLouvain) – Physician
- Prof. Seyla Benhabib (KUL, UCLouvain) – Philosopher
- Rudi Vranckx (VUB, ULB) – Journalist
- Prof. Stanly Plotkin (UA, ULB) – Physician and virologist
- Prof. Anne Lacaton (ULB, UA) – Architect
- Stephen Fry (KUL) – Actor and writer
- Prof. Habib Ayeb (UGent) – Geographer
- Alain Platel (UGent) – Director and choreographer
- Sidi Larbi Charkaoui (UA) – Dancer and choreographer
- Prof. Paul Gilroy (Uliège) – Sociologist
- Prof. Diane Reay (UGent) – Sociologist
- Brian Eno (UCLouvain) – Music producer
- Ish Ait Hamou (UGent) – Author, director, screenwriter
- Prof. Françoise Tulkens (UGent) – Former judge in the European Court of Human Rights
- Prof. Nancy Fraser (ULiège) – Philosopher
- Ken Loach (ULB) – Filmmaker
- Prof. Jordi Sunyer (UHasselt) – Preventive Medicine and Public Health
- Elia Suleiman (UCLouvain) – Filmproducer, director
- Prof. Agnès van Zanten (ULB) – Sociologist
- Frank Mugisha (UGent) – LGBTI human rights advocate
- Prof. Clarice Garcia Borges Demétrio (UHasselt) – Biometrics
- Prof. James Volmink (KUL) – Global Health
- Prof. Mark Williams (KUL) – Psychologist
- Marlène Dumas (UA) – Artist
- Prof. Paul Michael Garrett (UGent) – Social work theorist
- Prof. Michel Gevers (VUB) – Engineer
- Prof. Nancy Kanwisher (KUL) – Neuroscientist
- Prof. Erika Vlieghe (UHasselt) – Internist and infectiologist
- Lize Spit (VUB) – writer
- Prof. Ségolène Aymé (KUL) – Medical geneticist and epidemiologist
- Prof. Olivier Hamant (UCLouvain) – biologist and biophysicist
- Rob Hopkins (UNamur) – environmental activist and writer
- Rik Devillé (UA) – Priest
- Prof. Laurajane Smith (UA) – Heritage and Museum Studies
- Prof. Luis M. Liz-Marzán (UA) – Chemist – nanoscience
- Prof. Luca Bertolini (UA) – Urban planning
- Prof. James Elkins (KUL) – Art historian
- Prof. Christian Grönroos (UHasselt) – economist
- Prof. Klaus Kümmerer (UGent) – Chemistry
- Prof. Françoise Vergès (UMons) – Historian
- Prof. Yves Sintomer (ULiège) – Political scientist
- Christine Mahy (ULiège) – Secretary General and Policy Director of RWLP
- Prof. Chris Butler (UA) – Medicine and Healthcare
- Dominique Gauzin-Müller (ULiège) – Architect
- Jaco Van Dormael (ULB) – Filmmaker
- Prof. Stella Nkomo (UHasselt) – Human resource management
- Lucretia Martel (KUL) – Filmmaker
- Yves Moreau (UCLouvain) – Science and technology
- Johan Simons (UGent) – Theater and opera director
- Prof. Jan Rabaey (UA, UHasselt) – Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
