Nizami Ganjavi International Award
In 2012, The Nizami Ganjavi International Center established the “Nizami Ganjavi International Award” to be presented to very distinguished personalities and institutions embodying the very values that Nizami promoted through his poetry to celebrate the great Azerbaijan poet Nizami Ganjavi, for the many gifts he has given us, for the inspiration he has bequeathed to the profound humanity that calls to the better angels of our nature through the centuries and into the future.
Award Recipients
Vaira Vike-Freiberga
President of Latvia 1999-2007; Co-Chair, NGIC
Ismail Serageldin
Co-Chair, NGIC Vice-President of the World Bank 1992-2000
Melanne Verveer
Former US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues
Suleyman Demirel
9th President of Turkiye
Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1979-1990
His Majesty Abdullah II Bin Al-Hussain
King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden
Queen of Sweden
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
6th Secretary-General of the United Nations
Henry Kissinger
56th United States Secretary of State
Rosen Plevneliev
President of the Republic of Bulgaria 2012-2017
Mehriban Aliyeva
First Vice President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Arthur Schneier
Senior Rabbi of New York City’s Park East Synagogue
Ashraf Ghani
President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan 2014-2021
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Recipient: Kerry Kennedy
Wendy Fisher
President of the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2006 Founder, Grameen Park
Abdel Fattah El-Sisi
6th President of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Marianna V. Vardinoyannis
Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO
John S. McCain III
Recipient: Cindy McCain, Chair of the Board of McCain Institute
On behalf of the Greek People
Recipient: Prokopios Pavlopoulos, President of the Greece 2015-2020
Jeffrey Sachs
Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on SDG
Kailash Satyarthi
Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, Founder of Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation
Helen Clark
Prime Minister of New Zealand 1999-2008 Administrator of UNDP 2009-2017
Tatiana Valovaya
Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General of the World Health Organization
Gordon Brown
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom & Northern Ireland 2007-2010
Jose Ramos-Horta
President of East Timur
Winnie Byanyima
Executive Director of the UNAIDS
Miguel Angel Moratinos
High-Representative for the UN Alliance of Civilizations
Jean-Claude Trichet
President of the European Central Bank 2003-2011; Governor of the Bank of France 1993-2003
Wolfgang Ischinger
President of the Foundation Council, Munich Security Conference
Bajram Begaj
President of the Republic of Albania
Kim Phuc Pan Thi
Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO