Recipients of the awards are as follows:
2025 •
Javier Milei -
President of Argentina •
Emmanuel Macron,
President of France •
Gianni Infantino, President of
FIFA 2024 •
Nana Akufo-Addo -
President of Ghana •
Kyriakos Mitsotakis -
Prime Minister of Greece •
Giorgia Meloni -
Prime Minister of Italy •
Miky Lee - Vice Chairwoman,
CJ Group 2023 •
Volodymyr Zelenskyy –
President of Ukraine •
Olaf Scholz –
Chancellor of Germany •
Fumio Kishida –
Prime Minister of Japan •
Janet Yellen –
United States Secretary of the Treasury • Victor L.L. Chu – Chairman and CEO of First Eastern Investment Group (Distinguished Service Award)
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 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 •
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 •
Erna Solberg -
Prime Minister 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 ==References==