Harold Robles

Who is Harold Robles?

Harold Robles is an American entrepreneur, known for his international humanitarian work as a devotee of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Albert Schweitzer.

1973, he founded the Albert Schweitzer Center in the Netherlands, an international clearinghouse for students and scholars seeking publications and archival information concerning Schweitzer’s philosophy and ethics. Two years later, he was appointed Secretary General of the International Schweitzer Organization, an organization founded by Dr. Schweitzer in the 1930s in Strasbourg, France.

In 1981, Robles immigrated to the United States, where together with Schweitzer's daughter Rhena Schweitzer Miller, he founded the Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities; an organization dedicated to alleviating suffering from mental illness, poverty and family turmoil, as well as from war and impaired physical health. The Institute has organized international events and conducted advocacy for human rights, the environment, world peace and public health. Robles served as ASIH's president until his retirement in 1998.