Recipients
Recipients of the awards are as follows: [2]
2025
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Javier Milei - President of Argentina [3] -
Emmanuel Macron, President of France [4] - Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA [5] [6]
2024
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Nana Akufo-Addo - President of Ghana [7] -
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 [8] -
Olaf Scholz – Chancellor of Germany [9] -
Fumio Kishida – Prime Minister of Japan [10] - Janet Yellen – United States Secretary of the Treasury [11]
- Victor L.L. Chu – Chairman and CEO of First Eastern Investment Group (Distinguished Service Award) [12]
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
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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
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Mark Rutte - Prime Minister of the Netherlands [13] - 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
- Mauricio Macri - President of the Argentine Republic
- John McCain - United States Senator from Arizona
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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
- 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
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Lee Kuan Yew - Former Prime Minister of Singapore - Robert De Niro - Actor, Director, Producer
- Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner - Piano Virtuoso
2013
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
- Christine Lagarde - Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
- John Kerry - United States Secretary of State
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Rafik Hariri - Prime Minister of Lebanon (posthumous award)
2010
- Klaus Schwab - Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum