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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 of the awards are as follows: [2]
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 
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] 
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
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
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 
Justin Trudeau - Prime Minister of Canada Moon Jae-in - President of the Republic of Korea 
Lang Lang - World-renowned Pianist, Educator and Philanthropist Shinzō Abe - Prime Minister of Japan Matteo Renzi - Prime Minister of Italy Wynton Marsalis - Managing and Artistic Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center 
Juan Manuel Santos - President of Colombia Mario Draghi - European Central Bank President Yu Long - Artistic Director, China Philharmonic
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
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
Christine Lagarde - Managing Director, International Monetary Fund John Kerry - United States Secretary of State 
Rafik Hariri - Prime Minister of Lebanon (posthumous award) Klaus Schwab - Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum 
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