Recipients
Recipients of the awards are as follows:[2]
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[3]- 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.[4][5]