Past Global Hero Award Winners
2022: Christopher Elias
President, Global Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2021: Jerilyn Brusseau
Founder, PeaceTrees Vietnam
2021: Rose Berg
Director of Advocacy and Communications, Chandler Foundation, in memoriam
2020: Tazin Shadid
Founder, Spreeha Bangladesh
2019: Celeste Mergens
Founder & CEO, Days for Girls International
2018: Patrick G. Awuah, Jr.
Founder and President of Ashesi University, Ghana
2017: Tom Waldron (in memoriam)
Founder and CEO of Waldron
2016: Bill Neukom
Founder, The World Justice Project
2015: Bill Gates Sr.
Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2014: Akhtar Badshah
Former Senior Director, Microsoft
2013: Jennifer Potter
Former CEO, Initiative for Global Development
2012: Therese Caouette
Southeast Asia Regional Advisor, Partners Asia
2011: Roy Prosterman
Co-founder, Landesa