Harold Robles

Harold Robles (born October 8, 1948) is an American entrepreneur, known for his international humanitarian work as a devotee of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Albert Schweitzer.
1973, he founded the Albert Schweitzer Center in the Netherlands, an international clearinghouse for students and scholars seeking publications and archival information concerning Schweitzer’s philosophy and ethics. Two years later, he was appointed Secretary General of the International Schweitzer Organization (ASIL), an organization founded by Dr. Schweitzer in the 1930s in Strasbourg, France.
In 1981, Robles immigrated to the United States, where together with Schweitzer's daughter Rhena Schweitzer Miller, he founded the Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities (ASIH); an organization dedicated to alleviating suffering from mental illness, poverty and family turmoil, as well as from war and impaired physical health. The Institute has organized international events and conducted advocacy for human rights, the environment, world peace and public health. Robles served as ASIH's president until his retirement in 1998.
In 1999, Robles founded the Medical Knowledge Institute (MKI), an International non-profit organization that focuses on education and providing information from the conviction that healthcare is a human right. For his work, Robles received numerous awards such as an Honorary Professorship of the Polish Academy of Medicine, School of Public Health in Warsaw, Poland, honorary doctorates. On the 29th of April 2009 Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands granted Harold Robles a Knighthood, “Ridder in de Orde van Oranje Nassau”. In July 2012 Robles was appointed to the faculty of The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services for the period of one year in the status of Professorial Lecturer in Prevention and Community Health.

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