Prize Winners
List of all Prize Winners of the Global Economy Prize
Politics
2024 Laurence Boone, Ph.D.
Former Secretary of State for Europe in France and former Chief Economist of the OECD
2023 Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Director General World Trade Organization (WTO)
2022 Dr. Dalia Grybauskaitė
Former President of the Republic of Lithuania, and former European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget
2021 Dr. Göran Persson
Former Minister President of Sweden
2019 Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble MdB
President of the German Bundestag
2018 Prof. Klaus Schwab
Founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF)
2017 Prof. Dr. Horst Köhler
German politician and economist. Former Federal President of Germany and Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
2016 Prof. Mario Monti
President University Bocconi, former Prime Minister of Italy and former European Commissioner for Competition
2015 Mikhail Gorbachev(†)
Former Soviet Politician and USSR Head of State, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
2014 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
President of the Republic of Liberia, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
2013 Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland
Former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Norway
2012 Dr. h.c. mult. Martti Ahtisaari (†)
Former President of the Republic of Finland, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
2011 Jean-Claude Trichet
President of the European Central Bank
2010 Pascal Lamy
Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
2009 Mary Robinson
Former President of the Republic of Ireland
2008 Nelly Kroes
European Union Competition Commissioner
2007 Dr. h.c. mult. Helmut Schmidt (†)
Former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
2006 Jacques Delors
Former President of the European Commission
2005 Dr. Wim Kok (†)
Former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Business
2024 Dr. Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller
CEO TRUMPF SE + Co. KG.
2023 Dr. Eleni Gabre-Madhin
Chief Innovation Officer, UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa
2022 Hans-Julius Ahlmann
Managing Partner of the ACO Group
2021 Prof. Dr. Michael Otto
Chairman of the Otto Group Supervisory Board
2019 Hikmet Ersek
President, CEO, Director, Western Union
2018 Bas van Abel
Founder and CEO of Fairphone B.V.
2017 Arundhati Bhattacharya
Indian banker. Chairperson of the State Bank of India
Brunello Cucinelli
Italian fashion designer. Founder, Chairman and CEO of Brunello Cucinelli S.p.A.
2016 Dr. h.c. Friede Springer
Publisher, Axel Springer SE
2015 Jeffrey Immelt
CEO of General Electric
Kristine and Douglas (†) Tompkins
Entrepreneurs in the textile industry (The North Face, Esprit, Patagonia), Founder of private wildlife sanctuaries in Patagonia
2014 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Chairman and Managing Director of Biocon Limited
2013 Mohammed Ibrahim, Ph.D.
Entrepreneur and Founder of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation
2012 Prof. Nathan Eagle, Ph.D.
Founder and Chairman of Jana
2011 Victor L.L. Chu
Chairman of the First Eastern Investment Group, Hong Kong
2010 Liz Mohn
CEO of the Bertelsmann Asset Management Co., Deputy CEO of the Bertelsmann Foundation
2009 Sunil Bharti Mittal
Chairman of the Bharti Group
Baba N. Kalyani
Chairman of the Kalyani Group
2008 Dietmar Hopp
Founder of SAP
2007 Dr. h.c. Ingvar Kamprad (†)
Founder of IKEA
2006 Dr. Jorma Ollila
CEO of Nokia
2005 Dr. Wendelin Wiedeking
CEO of Porsche
Economics
2024 Prof. Dr. Isabel Schnabel
Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and Professor of Financial Market Economics at the Universität Bonn
2023 Prof. Leonard Wantchekon, Ph.D.
Princeton University
2022 Prof. Ufuk Akcigit Ph.D.
Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
2021 Prof. Xuemei Bai, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, Urban Environment and Human Ecology, Australian National University, Canberra
2019 Prof. Daron Acemoglu, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
2018 Prof. Robert Shiller, Ph.D.
American economist, Nobel prizewinner, and best-selling author
2017 Prof. Assar Lindbeck, Ph.D.(†)
Swedish economist. Professor of International Economics at the University of Stockholm
2015 Sir Christopher A. Pissarides
London School of Economics, University of Cyprus
2014 Prof. Richard H. Thaler, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
2013 Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Ph.D.
Columbia University, Nobel Laureate
2012 Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D.
University of California, Nobel Laureate
2011 Prof. Lawrence H. Summers, Ph.D.
Harvard University
2010 Prof. Paul R. Krugman, Ph.D.
Princeton University, Nobel Laureate
2009 Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Ph.D.
Leiter des Earth Institute, Columbia University
2008 Prof. Edmund Phelps, Ph.D.
Columbia University, Nobel Laureate
2007 Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Amartya Sen, Ph.D.
Harvard University, Nobel Laureate
2006 Prof. George Akerlof, Ph.D.
University of California, Nobel Laureate
2005 Prof. Robert Mundell, Ph.D. (†)
Columbia University, Nobel Laureate