Global Citizen Awards

Global Citizen Awards is presented by the Atlantic Council annually to individuals who have made exceptional and distinctive contributions to strengthening the transatlantic relationship.[1]

Recipients

Recipients of the awards are as follows:[2]

2019

• 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 [3]
• will.i.am - Founder, Black Eyed Peas, Founder & 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

• Mauricio Macri - President of the Argentine Republic
• John McCain - United States Senator from Arizona
• Erna Solberg - Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Norway
• Hamdi Ulukaya - Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chobani and Founder, The Tent Partnership for Refugees

2017

• Justin Trudeau - Prime Minister of Canada
• Moon Jae-in - President of the Republic of Korea
• Lang Lang - World-renowned Pianist, Educator and Philanthropist

2016

• Shinzō Abe - Prime Minister of Japan
• Matteo Renzi - Prime Minister of Italy
• Wynton Marsalis - Managing and Artistic Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center

2015

• Juan Manuel Santos - President of Colombia
• Mario Draghi - European Central Bank President
• Yu Long - Artistic Director, China Philharmonic

2014

• 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

• Bronisław Komorowski - President of the Republic of Poland
• Queen Rania Al Abdullah - Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
• Seiji Ozawa - Conductor

2012

• 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

• Christine Lagarde - Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
• John Kerry - United States Secretary of State
• Rafik Hariri - Prime Minister of Lebanon (posthumous award)

2010

• Klaus Schwab - Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum

2004

• Stanislav Petrov - lieutenant colonel, who played a key role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident.[4][5]

References

1. "About the Global Citizen Awards". Atlantic Council.
2. "Previous Global Citizen Awards Honorees". Atlantic Council.
3. Rijksoverheid. "Toespraak minister-president Mark Rutte bij het in ontvangst nemen van de Global Citizen Award in New York". Retrieved 2020-06-17.
4. https://web.archive.org/web/20060206103808/http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/01/20/petrovaward.shtml
5. https://brightstarsound.com/

External links

• Home page of Global Citizen Awards