Over time, Bucharest University of Economic Studies has conferred the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa to a series of great national and international scientific and political personalities, who have significantly contributed to the development of economic sciences and economic higher education. Our University takes great pride in having conferred the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa to Nobel Prize Laureates Lawrence Klein (1980), James McGill Buchanan Jr. (1986) and Joseph Stiglitz (2001), as well as to internationally renowned scientists Anghel Rugina (the most famous Romanian economist living abroad) and Philip Kotler (the father of modern Marketing).

Moreover, the University has conferred the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa to heads of state (such as His Majesty King Michael I of Romania, Ion Iliescu, the President of Romania, Nursultan Abishevich Nazarbaiev, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Turgut Ozal the President of the Republic of Turkey), or to European high officials (Jacques Santer and Romano Prodi, Presidents of the European Commission, Joachim Almunia, Vice-president of the European Commission, Emma Harriet Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, European Parliament's Special Rapporteur for Romania between 2000 and 2004). Other outstanding personalities who have received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from our University are: Gerrit Zalm, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in the Netherlands, His Excellency Philippe Etienne, the French ambassador to Romania, Yves Franchet, Director General of Eurostat, a Directorate-General of the European Commission, Fabrizio Onida, President of the Italian Institute of Foreign Trade, Nam-Kee Lee, President of the Korea Fair Trade Commission, His Excellency Mircea Malita, member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences).

In the last 20 years, ASE Bucharest has also conferred the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa to outstanding professors from various sub-fields of Economics, who have contributed to the development of institutional relations with Bucharest University of Economic Studies, hence to the increase in the University's international visibility and to the improvement of the teaching and research activities taking place in our University: Yvan Allaire (The Universite du Quebec a Montreal), Thierry de Montbrial (the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris), Samuel Lichtensztejn Teszler (Rector of the University of the Republic, Uruguay and Minister of Education of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay), Jean-Paul Pollin (University of Orleans ), Rijnvos Cornelis Johannes (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Lennart Hjalmarsson (University of Gothenburg), Finn Ragnar Forsund (University of Oslo), Peter Nijkamp (VU University Amsterdam), Gerhard Michael Ambrosi (University of Trier), Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (Rector of the George Washington University from Washington D.C.), Lester Lloyd-Reason (Anglia Ruskin University from Cambridge), Alain Burlaud (the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris), Maurice Yolles (Liverpool John Moores University), Philipe Rollet (Vice-president of the Lille University of Science and Technology), Andre Cabanis (Vice-president of Toulouse 1 University Capitole), Allan Clement Hodgson (University of Amsterdam), Igor Anatolevici Maximtev (Rector of Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance), Donna L. Street (University of Dayton, Ohio).

To recognize the merits of those who cannot receive the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from our University as they directly or indirectly belong to our academic community, ASE Bucharest has conferred them the Virgil Madgearu Diploma with a Gold Medal. It has been conferred to Gheorghe Dolgu (former Rector of ASE Bucharest), Mugur Isarescu (the governor of the National Bank of Romania), Ioan Talpos (Rector of the West University of Timisoara), Paul Bran (former Rector of ASE - post-mortem), Alexandru Puiu (former Rector of ASE), Leonid Stepanovici Tarasevici (Rector of Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance), Constantin Virgil Negoita (City University of New York).