1983 Nobel Peace Prize Winner; Former President of Poland; Co-founder of Solidarity, the Soviet bloc’s first independent trade union; “Man of the Year” by Time Magazine (1981), The Financial Times (1980) and The Observer (1980); First recipient of the Liberty Medal in 1989; Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Award of Free World (Norway), European Award of Human Rights; The third foreigner and the first non-head-of-state to have addressed a joint session of the United States Congress; Walesa has been awarded over 30 honorary doctorates by universities around the world including Harvard University and the University of Paris.