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