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
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Vaira Vike-Freiberga
President of Latvia 1999-2007; Co-Chair, NGIC
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Ismail Serageldin
Co-Chair, NGIC Vice-President of the World Bank 1992-2000
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Melanne Verveer
Former US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues
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Suleyman Demirel
9th President of Turkiye
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Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States
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Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1979-1990
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His Majesty Abdullah II Bin Al-Hussain
King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
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Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden
Queen of Sweden
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali
6th Secretary-General of the United Nations
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Henry Kissinger
56th United States Secretary of State
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Rosen Plevneliev
President of the Republic of Bulgaria 2012-2017
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Mehriban Aliyeva
First Vice President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
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Arthur Schneier
Senior Rabbi of New York City’s Park East Synagogue
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Ashraf Ghani
President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan 2014-2021
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Recipient: Kerry Kennedy
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Wendy Fisher
President of the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
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Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2006 Founder, Grameen Park
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Abdel Fattah El-Sisi
6th President of the Arab Republic of Egypt
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Marianna V. Vardinoyannis
Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO
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John S. McCain III
Recipient: Cindy McCain, Chair of the Board of McCain Institute
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On behalf of the Greek People
Recipient: Prokopios Pavlopoulos, President of the Greece 2015-2020
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Jeffrey Sachs
Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on SDG
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Kailash Satyarthi
Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, Founder of Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation
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Helen Clark
Prime Minister of New Zealand 1999-2008 Administrator of UNDP 2009-2017
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Tatiana Valovaya
Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General of the World Health Organization
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Gordon Brown
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom & Northern Ireland 2007-2010
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Jose Ramos-Horta
President of East Timur
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Winnie Byanyima
Executive Director of the UNAIDS
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Miguel Angel Moratinos
High-Representative for the UN Alliance of Civilizations