Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu is a South-African cleric and activist known for being one of the first opponents of apartheid. In 1960, he was ordained as a priest in the Anglican Church and in 1978 began to serve as the General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches. In 1984, Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and two years later was elected the first black African to serve in the position of Archbishop of Cape Town. After the first multi-racial elections in 1994, president Mandela appointed him to chair the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Today, after he retired and was named Archbishop Emeritus, he works as a Professor of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, USA, and has served as the honorary chairman for the Global AIDS Alliance.