John and Ankie Piket Fellowship

Award descriptionFellowships totalling $21,700 have been made available through an endowment established by an estate gift from John Piket (1923-2021), in memory of his wife, Ankie Piket (1925-1989), for outstanding Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Business Administration students who have demonstrated an interest in management science. Mr. Piket was born in Berlin, Germany. He was a survivor of the Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt concentration camps. His mother and younger brother perished in Auschwitz, and his father, who was working in South America during the 1940s, died before Mr. Piket was able to reunite with him. After World War II, Mr. Piket returned to Berlin, before living in France, Switzerland and the Netherlands. In France, he became a confidant of Jean Paul Sartre; in Switzerland, he received an engineering degree from ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne; and in the Netherlands he met his wife, Ankie. They immigrated to Canada in 1952, and moved to West Vancouver, British Columbia in the 1970s, where they spent the rest of their lives. The fellowships are made on the recommendation of the Robert H. Lee Graduate School, and in the case of a graduate student, in consultation with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.