Chelsea Clinton gets honorary degree from Ben-Gurion University

Writer and global health activist Chelsea Clinton was among six individuals to receive honorary doctoral degrees from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

The other recipients were philanthropist Patrick Drahi, water engineer Prof. Menachem Elimelech, philanthropist Esther Halperin, plant biologist Dr. Segenet Kelemu, and former Israeli Supreme Court justice Prof. Elyakim Rubinstein.

Clinton is the only child of former US president Bill Clinton and former US secretary of state and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. She was a special correspondent for NBC News from 2011 to 2014 and sits on the board of the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative. She lives in New York City with her Jewish husband Marc Mezvinsky, an investment banker, and their three children.

Clinton praised BGU, saying she was “proud to be receiving this honorary degree from an institution that understands the importance of forging a connection between the questions we ask, the research we conduct, what we teach our students, and that we hopefully empower our students to go out and do in the world.”