Assembly regularly refers to the “valuable contribution” that the academy "continues to make to the United Nations Program of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law". The academy was awarded the Wateler Peace Prize (1936, 1950), the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize (1992), the Order of Rio Branco, Brazil (1999), and the Medal of the Royal Institute of European Studies, Spain (2000). The academy has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 34 times between 1915 and 1956. The academy is part of the Hague Academic Coalition. The structure of the academy The Curatorium The academy's academic activities and policies are defined by the Curatorium. It consists of members of different nationalities, who are well known in the academic or diplomatic worlds, or practising international lawyers. The president of the Curatorium is a distinguished jurist who generally has extensive experience of international and diplomatic life. Among the most recent presidents have been Roberto Ago, Nicolas Valticos and Boutros Boutros-Ghali. President Yves Daudet, Secretary General of the academy Curatorium and professor emeritus at the University Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), was appointed following the death of the Curatorium President and Former Secretary-General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali on 16 February 2016. Vice-President Erik Jayme, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Foreign and International Private and Commercial Law, Heidelberg; Members Geneviève Bastid-Burdeau, Professor at the University Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne); Florentino P. Feliciano, former Chairman, Appellate Body, WTO; former Senior Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the Philippines; Diego P. Fernandez Arroyo, Honorary Professor of the National University of Córdoba, Professor at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris; Beat Hess, former group legal director, former member of the Executive Committee, Royal Dutch Shell plc; Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg, Professor and former Dean at the Faculty of Law of Uppsala University; Jamshid Momtaz, Professor at the University of Teheran; Shinya Murase, Professor at Sophia University, Tokyo; Member of the United Nations International Law Commission; Raymond Ranjeva, Former Vice-President of the International Court of Justice; Linos-Alexander Sicilianos, Professor at the University of Athens; A. (Teun) V.M. Struycken, Professor emeritus at the Radboud University Nijmegen; Former President of the Netherlands Standing Government Committee on Private International Law; Peter Tomka, Judge and President of the International Court of Justice; Tullio Treves, Professor at the University of Milan, Judge to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea; Peter D. Trooboff, Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling, Washington,