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Roy Prosterman

Roy L. Prosterman (July 13, 1935 – February 27, 2025) was an American legal scholar who was Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Washington and the founder of the Rural Development Institute (RDI), which changed its name to Landesa in January 2011. He was also active in the fields of land reform, rural development, and foreign aid. He provided advice and conducted research in more than 40 countries in Asia, the former Soviet Union, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. Prosterman received many awards and distinctions, including the 2003 Gleitsman International Activist Award, a Schwab Foundation Outstanding Global Social Entrepreneur, the inaugural 2006 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Nonprofit Leadership where he was lauded as "Champion for the World's Poor", and the 2012 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship alongside colleague and Landesa co-founder Tim Hanstad. He was nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize, and was also nominated for the World Food Prize, and Alcan Prize for Sustainability. Prosterman was a frequent guest speaker and presenter at world forums on poverty alleviation and was a frequent published author in nonfiction and fiction.

The organization he founded, Landesa, has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the 2015 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize and the 2017 LUI Che Woo Prize. Provided by Wikipedia