World Future Policy Award

The theme for the 2024 World Future Policy Award, 'Peace and Future Generations', underscores the critical importance of lasting peace as a foundation for sustainable development. The need forinnovative and inclusive policies to resolve conflicts, prevent wars, and cultivate a culture of peace has never been more urgent. The 2024 World Future Policy Award on Peace and Future Generationshighlights such policies to inform and influence policy makers – supported by civil society – to adoptsimilar exemplary approaches worldwide.

• Maria Fernanda Espinosa (Ecuador): 73rd President of the UN General Assembly. Former Foreign Minister, Defense Minister and Cultural and Natural Heritage Minister of Ecuador.
  Former Ambassador of Ecuador to the UN in Geneva.
  
  
• Jakob von Uexkull (Sweden/UK): Founder of the World Future Council and the Right Livelihood Award. Co-founder of The Other Economic Summit.
  
  
• Nikhil Seth (India): Executive Director of UNITAR, UN Assistant Secretary General, former Director, Division for Sustainable Development, UN DESA.
  
  
• Dr. Jean-Marc Rickli (Switzerland): Head of Global and Emerging Risks and the Founder and Director of the Polymath Initiative at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
  
  
• Divina Stella Maloum (Cameroon): Founder, Children for Peace, Youth Board Member, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, International Advisor, Women7 (W7) on gender equity for G7 countries, Winner, International Children’s Peace Prize (2019).
  
  
• Neshan Gunasekera (Sri Lanka/Sweden): Visiting Fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund, Sweden. Member of the Steering Committee of the Ecological Law and Governance Association. Lead Counsel for Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law.
  
  
• Anda Filip (Romania/Switzerland): Director of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Division for Member Parliaments and External Relations. Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations in Geneva.
  
  
• Dr. h.c. Hafsat Abiola-Costello (Nigeria): President of the Women in Africa Initiative. Special Envoy to Africa for Women Political Leaders.
  
  
• Alyn Ware (New Zealand/Czech Republic): Global Coordinator for Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament. Director of the Basel Peace Office. Program Director at the World Federalist Movement/Institute for Global Policy.

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