Atlantic Council Global Citizen Awards
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Atlantic Council Global Citizen Awards are presented by the Atlantic Council annually to individuals who have made exceptional and distinctive contributions to strengthening the transatlantic relationship. The awards are presented annually during the United Nations General Assembly week in New York.[1]
Recipients
[edit]Recipients of the awards are as follows:[2]
2024
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Nana Akufo-Addo - President of Ghana[3]
Kyriakos Mitsotakis - Prime Minister of Greece
Giorgia Meloni - Prime Minister of Italy
Miky Lee - Vice Chairwoman, CJ Group
2023
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy – President of Ukraine[4]
Olaf Scholz – Chancellor of Germany[5]
Fumio Kishida – Prime Minister of Japan[6]
Janet Yellen – United States Secretary of the Treasury[7]- Victor L.L. Chu – Chairman and CEO of First Eastern Investment Group (Distinguished Service Award)[8]
2022
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Sauli Niinistö - President of the Republic of Finland
Joko Widodo - President of the Republic of Indonesia- Shinzo Abe - Former Prime Minister of Japan
Magdalena Andersson - Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sweden
Sundar Pichai - Chairman and CEO of Alphabet Inc, and its subsidiary Google- Forest Whitaker - Actor and development activist
2019
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Sebastian Piñera Echenique - President of the Republic of Chile- Brian Grazer - Storyteller, Movie and Television Producer, Founder, and Philanthropist
Mark Rutte - Prime Minister of the Netherlands[9]- will.i.am - Founder, Black Eyed Peas, Founder and CEO, I.AM+, and Founder and President, i.am.angel Foundation
- Anna Deavere Smith - Actress, playwright, teacher, and author, Atlantic Council’s first Artist in Residence
2018
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Mauricio Macri - President of the Argentine Republic- John McCain - United States Senator from Arizona
Erna Solberg - Prime Minister of Norway
Hamdi Ulukaya - Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chobani and Founder, The Tent Partnership for Refugees
2017
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Justin Trudeau - Prime Minister of Canada- Moon Jae-in - President of the Republic of Korea
Lang Lang - World-renowned Pianist, Educator and Philanthropist
2016
[edit]- Shinzō Abe - Prime Minister of Japan
- Matteo Renzi - Prime Minister of Italy
- Wynton Marsalis - Managing and Artistic Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center
2015
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Juan Manuel Santos - President of Colombia- Mario Draghi - European Central Bank President
- Yu Long - Artistic Director, China Philharmonic
2014
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Shimon Peres - Former President of Israel
Enrique Peña Nieto - President of Mexico- Petro Poroshenko - President of Ukraine
Lee Kuan Yew - Former Prime Minister of Singapore- Robert De Niro - Actor, Director, Producer
- Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner - Piano Virtuoso
2013
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Bronisław Komorowski - President of the Republic of Poland
Queen Rania Al Abdullah - Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan- Seiji Ozawa - Conductor
2012
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Aung San Suu Kyi - Chair, Burmese National League for Democracy- Henry Kissinger - Former United States Secretary of State
- Sadako Ogata - Former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Quincy Jones - Producer, Composer, Arranger, and Humanitarian
2011
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Christine Lagarde - Managing Director, International Monetary Fund- John Kerry - United States Secretary of State
Rafik Hariri - Prime Minister of Lebanon (posthumous award)
2010
[edit]- Klaus Schwab - Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
References
[edit]- ^ "About the Global Citizen Awards". Atlantic Council. Archived from the original on 2017-09-11. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
- ^ "Previous Global Citizen Awards Honorees". Atlantic Council. September 2019. Archived from the original on 2023-03-31. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
- ^ "2024 Global Citizen Awards". Atlantic Council. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
- ^ "Volodymyr Zelenskyy received the Atlantic Council Global Citizen Award on behalf of the Ukrainian people". President of Ukraine. 21 September 2023.
- ^ Nikolik, Nevenka (2023-09-21). "Scholz, Zelensky among those awarded Global Citizen Awards". Mia.mk. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
- ^ "Prime Minister Kishida's acceptance of Atlantic Council's Global Citizen Award". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. September 20, 2023.
- ^ "Remarks by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen at the Atlantic Council Global Citizen Awards in New York, New York". U.S Department of the Treasury. September 20, 2023.
- ^ "Victor Chu Wins Global Citizen Award from Atlantic Council". wcfia.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
- ^ Rijksoverheid (23 September 2019). "Toespraak minister-president Mark Rutte bij het in ontvangst nemen van de Global Citizen Award in New York". Archived from the original on 2020-06-18. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
External links
[edit]- Home page of Global Citizen Awards Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine