Global Citizen Awards Explained

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]

2022

• 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 Chief executive officer (CEO) of Alphabet Inc, and its subsidiary Google
• Forest Whitaker - Actor and development activist

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]}

External links

• Home page of Global Citizen Awards

Notes and References

1. Web site: About the Global Citizen Awards . Atlantic Council . 2017-09-15 . 2017-09-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170911211355/http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/events/global-citizen-awards . live .
2. Web site: Previous Global Citizen Awards Honorees. September 2019. Atlantic Council. 2020-06-18. 2023-03-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20230331153232/https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/events/flagship-event/global-citizen-awards/previous-gca-recipients/. live.
3. Web site: Toespraak minister-president Mark Rutte bij het in ontvangst nemen van de Global Citizen Award in New York. Rijksoverheid. 23 September 2019. 2020-06-17. 2020-06-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20200618025937/https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/toespraken/2019/09/23/toespraak-minister-president-mark-rutte-bij-het-in-ontvangst-nemen-van-de-global-citizen-award. dead.
4. Web site: Russian Colonel Who Averted Nuclear War Receives World Citizen Award - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM . www.mosnews.com . 13 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060206103808/http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/01/20/petrovaward.shtml . 6 February 2006 . dead.
5. Web site: Sadly... Stanislav Petrov died on May 19, 2017, in Fryazino, Russia . 2020-09-10 . 2020-07-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200731194757/https://brightstarsound.com/ . live .