2015年9月30日，雷蒙校长获上海市政府颁发“白玉兰荣誉奖”。“白玉兰荣誉奖”是上海市人民政府和上海人民对获奖者辛勤工作的肯定，也是对所有关心、支持上海发展的外籍友人的深切谢意。

雷蒙校长曾获得诸多嘉奖，以表彰他在美国以及全世界范围内所作出的贡献，其中包括中国政府对来华工作并作出突出贡献的外国专家所颁发的最高奖项——“友谊奖”。他也被北京大学授予荣誉博士学位。

Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai Jeffrey Lehman has been named one of “The Most Influential Foreign Experts During 40 Years of China’s Reform and Opening-Up.”

The award, established by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, was announced at the opening ceremony of the 16th Conference on International Exchange of Professionals, on April 14 in the city of Shenzhen.

Vice Chancellor Lehman is one of forty senior foreign scientists, artists, educators and diplomats to be honored for their pivotal contributions to China’s remarkable progress since 1978 in scientific research, cultural exchanges, major technologies, and higher education.

“During the past decade, I have worked with many gifted colleagues at the Peking University School of Transnational Law and at NYU Shanghai. Both institutions are committed to helping China develop innovative approaches to higher education that embody the ideals of reform and opening up,” Lehman said.

“I am deeply moved that the government has now decided to recognize these efforts as ‘influential.’ We will continue to share what we have learned with the rest of the higher education community – here in China and abroad,” he added.

As founding Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai, Lehman oversees the academic and administrative operations of the first Sino-American joint university, a degree-granting campus of New York University established in partnership with East China Normal University. He is an internationally acclaimed leader in higher education, having previously served as president of Cornell University, dean of the University of Michigan Law School, and founding dean of the Peking University School of Transnational Law.

Lehman has received many honors for his work in the US and around the world, most notably China’s Friendship Award and an honorary doctorate from Peking University.