2015 Honorary Doctorate Recipients

Bareket Buchmann

Bareket Buchmann is a member of the Israel Bar Association, a double alumna of Tel Aviv University and a member of the University’s Board of Governors. Mrs. Buchmann has been deeply involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors both in Israel and Germany, together with her husband, Josef. The couple founded the Buchmann Faculty of Law and the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at TAU, where they continue to support numerous initiatives, including flying the School’s Symphony Orchestra to New York to perform a concert marking the UN International Day of Commemoration of the Victims of the Holocaust. They have also supported a range of other causes, among them the Buchmann Children’s Hospital in Frankfurt, the Buchmann Gynecology and Maternity Center at the Sheba Medical Center and the Buchmann Wing at the Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center, as well as the welfare of Israeli soldiers and underprivileged communities, aliyah from the former Soviet Union, and a major renewal and renovation of the former Lodz Ghetto in Poland.

Dr. David Korenfeld Federman

David Korenfeld Federman is a prominent expert in the international water sphere. He has held numerous senior public roles in his native Mexico, including Head of the National Water Authority of Mexico, Minister of Water and Public Works of Mexico State, and Mayor of the Huixquilucan Municipality. Dr. Korenfeld Federman has received numerous accolades for his contributions to improving Mexico’s water sector, among them the George Warren Fuller Award from the American Water Works Association. He was elected as President of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Council for the International Hydrological Program in 2014, and appointed as a Water Ambassador by the International Water Association. He has published five books in the field, among them The Mexican Penalty System: Theory of Administrative Sanction (2005) and Water, Harmony, Balance and Development (2011), and edited Water: Cycle of Destiny (2007). He holds an undergraduate degree in law, and masters and doctoral degrees in public administration from Anahuac University, Mexico.

Lorry I. Lokey

Lorry Lokey is the founder and CEO/Chairman Emeritus of Business Wire, the international media relations wire service that he founded in 1961 with just 7 clients and sold to Berkshire Hathaway in 2006 with 30 offices around the world. A veteran of World War II, Lokey completed his BA in journalism at Stanford University and worked as a reporter and public relations executive before serving as a wire editor for United Press in his home town of Portland, Oregon. Lokey was one of the early signatories of The Giving Pledge, the campaign launched by Warren Buffet and Bill and Melinda Gates to encourage US billionaires to give at least half of their fortunes to charity. Through the Lorry I. Lokey Supporting Foundation, he has made major donations to higher education institutions in the US and Israel. He has received numerous awards and serves on several boards, among them the Tel Aviv University Board of Governors, the San Francisco Opera Association and Santa Clara University.

Millie Phillips