Global Citizen Awards
# Global Citizen Awards

Global Citizen Awards is presented by the Atlantic Council annually to individuals who have made exceptional and distinctive contributions to strengthening the transatlantic relationship.

## Recipients

Recipients of the awards are as follows:

### 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
* 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.
