In Remembrance: Pierre B. A. Keller ’57PhD Died on February 23 2026

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Dr. Pierre Keller died on February 23, 2026. After completing his doctorate in international relations at Yale in 1957, he had a distinguished international career as a diplomat, as a long-term member of the International Committee of the Red Cross, as a banker, and as the founding chair of the Europaeum, a network of leading universities. A fuller obituary can be found on the Europaeum’s website. Our picture shows Keller (second from left) with three trustees of the Europaeum: on his right, HE Karel Schwarzenberg, former foreign minister of the Czech Republic, and on his left, José Manuel Barroso, former president of the European Commission, and Andrew Graham, former master of Balliol College, Oxford.

—Submitted on behalf of the family.