INITIATIVES
Global Competitiveness
Award
The Global Competitiveness Award honors leaders who have advanced the competitiveness agenda and made significant contributions to their nations, regions, cities, and globally. The Award recognizes trailblazers and groundbreakers who have brought together coalitions of people, leveraged new tools and models, championed new legislation and government policies, or ignited other activities to help strengthen their country’s competitiveness. These leaders transform how business is done, how government works with business, and how sectors come together to promote sustainability, innovation, growth, and prosperity for all of their citizens.
Find out more about the Awardees since 2016 below.
Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh GFCC Global Competitiveness Awardee, 2025
CEO, Hevolution GFCC Global Competitiveness Awardee, 2025
President, Carnegie Mellon University GFCC Global Competitiveness Awardee, 2025
President Emeritus, University of South Carolina GFCC Global Competitiveness Awardee, 2025
President and Vice-Chancellor, Queen’s University of BelfastGFCC Global Competitiveness Awardee, 2024
Chairman, Centre for Competitiveness GFCC Global Competitiveness Awardee, 2024
Bob Barbour, Chief Executive, Centre for Competitiveness & Paul Madden, Director, Centre for Competitiveness GFCC Global Competitiveness Awardees, 2024
Datuk Dr. Mohd Yusoff Sulaiman & Dr. Hassan Rashid Al-Derham Global Competitiveness Awardees, 2023
Simos Anastasopoulos, President, Compete GR & Symeon Tsomokos, President, Delphi Economic Forum. Special Recognitions, GIS 2022
CEO, Piraeus Bank GFCC Global Competitiveness Awardee, 2022
GFCC Distinguished Fellow GFCC Global Competitiveness Awardee, 2022
Partner of Center for Research and Consulting GFCC Global Competitiveness Awardee, 2019
Founder & CEO of the Centras Group GFCC Global Competitiveness Awardee, 2019
GFCC Global Competitiveness Awardee, 2019
President, Culligan Argentina President, EXCELENCIA GFCC Global Competitiveness Awardee, 2018
Former Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia GFCC Global Competitiveness Awardee, 2017
Chairman and CEO, Al-Dabbagh Group GFCC Global Competitiveness Awardee, 2016