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2015 Awards Dinner Celebrating 35 Years Welcome A Letter from the Chairman hank you for joining us at the EastWest Institute’s Annual Awards Dinner and celebrating our 35th anniversary. I am delighted to Twelcome the institute’s new CEO and President, Ambassador Cameron Munter. The world today presents a complex array of challenges. From China to Russia, the future of Iran after the nuclear deal and the rise of ISIS, to Afghanistan after the NATO drawdown, seemingly insurmountable issues abound. As a former diplomat who worked at the highest levels in Pakistan, Iraq, Serbia and other critical countries, Cameron is the right person to lead EWI forward into our next chapter. Cameron will initiate fresh approaches to conflict reduction and prevention in the 21st century, where problems are no longer solved by representatives of states alone. Under his leadership, the institute will anticipate issues and address them in unique and innovative ways, drawing on its reputation for independence, building trust, recasting issues and taking action. In recognition of what EWI stands for, we are also honored to present the John Edwin Mroz Global Statesman Award—recognizing an individual who exemplifies trust-building and is a catalyst for change— to Martti Ahtisaari, Former President of Finland, 2008 Nobel Laureate, and an EWI Board Member. President Ahtisaari has dedicated his life to conflict reduction and international mediation in crisis areas, whether as a senior Finnish public servant and President or in an international capacity, often connected to the United Nations. The EastWest Institute is looking forward to making a difference together in the world over the next 35 years. Thanks for all that you do to help pursue our mission. I know that we can count on your continued support. Ross Perot, Jr. Chairman, EastWest Institute eastwest.ngo 2015 Awards Dinner 3 Our Story Building Trust, Delivering Solutions for 35 Years When seemingly intractable Resolutely independent, we We support them with neutral forums conflicts threaten global security anticipate challenges, forge new and our original analysis, helping and stability, EWI steps in and connections and build trust among create innovative yet practical takes action. global leaders and influencers ideas that can have an impact. from government, the military, business and civil society. 4 2015 Awards Dinner eastwest.ngo Our Story Building Trust, Delivering Solutions for 35 Years We support them with neutral forums We work to make those ideas and our original analysis, helping a reality, using our worldwide create innovative yet practical network of decision-makers who ideas that can have an impact. can make change happen. eastwest.ngo 2015 Awards Dinner 5 Honoring Leadership EWI Annual Awards 2014 2010 Evgeny Pavlovich Velikhov, JOHN EDWIN MROZ GLOBAL PEACE BUILDING AWARD Secretary of the Public Chamber, STATESMAN AWARD Fethullah Gülen Russian Federation; President William J. Burns, of the Russian Research Center, Deputy Secretary of State VALUES BASED Kurchatov Institute LEADERSHIP AWARD 2013 H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak 2006 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD PEACE AND CONFLICT Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, PEACE AND PREVENTIVE PREVENTION PRIZE Secretary General of the DIPLOMACY AWARD Kathryn W. Davis Organisation of Islamic Nursultan Nazarbayev, Cooperation (OIC) President of Kazakhstan 2005 William Cohen, STATESMAN OF THE DECADE Former Secretary of Defense 2008 Rt. Hon. Tony Blair, STATESMEN OF THE YEAR British Prime Minister 2012 George Shultz, H.H. SHEIKHA FATIMA BINT Fmr. Secretary of State CORPORATE LEADERSHIP AWARD MUBARAK AWARD FOR Sam Nunn, U.S. Senator Sanford I. Weill, VALUES-BASED LEADERSHIP Henry Kissinger, Chairman, Citigroup Inc. Dr. Fehmida Mirza, Speaker of the Fmr. Secretary of State LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD National Assembly of Pakistan Bill Perry, Valery Gergiev, Shinkai Karokhail, Member of the Former Secretary of Defense Artistic and General Director of National Assembly of Afghanistan the Mariinsky Theatre, Principal PEACE BUILDING AWARD Conductor Designate, London INTERNATIONAL Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, Director Symphony Orchestra PEACEBUILDING AWARD General, International Atomic Koichiro Gemba, Minister Energy Agency 2004 for Foreign Affairs of Japan on STATESMAN OF THE YEAR behalf of the Japanese people. CORPORATE Anna Lindh, LEADERSHIP AWARD Foreign Minister of Sweden 2011 Joseph E. Robert, PEACE BUILDING AWARD GEORGE F. RUSSELL, JR. Chairman, Business Executives for Sergio Vieira de Mello, United Nations ECONOMIC SECURITY AWARD National Security Special Representative in Iraq; U.N. The Russell 20-20 High Commissioner for Human Rights 2007 CYBERSECURITY AWARD OUTSTANDING GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AWARD IEEE LEADERSHIP AWARD Alexei Kudrin, Dr. James H. Billington, Finance Minister of Russia ECONOMIC SECURITY AWARD Librarian of Congress; Founder of Professor Hans Rausing The Water Initiative the Open World Program Tetra Pak 6 2015 Awards Dinner eastwest.ngo 1997 STATESMEN OF THE YEAR Václav Havel, President of the Czech Republic Roman Herzog, Honoring Leadership President of Germany EWI Annual Awards LEADERSHIP IN ECONOMIC TRANSITION AWARDS Jacques de Larosière, 2003 PEACE BUILDING AWARDS President, European Bank for STATESMAN OF THE YEAR Carpathian Foundation Reconstruction and Development Dr. Javier Solana, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation High Representative for the European Sasakawa Peace Foundation 1996 Union’s Common Foreign and STATESMEN OF THE YEAR Security Policy 2000 Lennart Meri, President of Estonia STATESMEN OF THE YEAR Guntis Ulmanis, President of Latvia LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT Ismail Cem, Algirdas Brazauskas, President of Leo Schenker, Foreign Minister of Turkey Lithuania Senior Executive Vice President, George Papandreou, Central National-Gottesman Foreign Minister of Greece CORPORATE John J. Roberts, LEADERSHIP AWARD Senior Advisor, AIG PEACE BUILDING AWARDS Donald M. Kendall, Former Chairman AKUT Search and Rescue and CEO, PepsiCo., Inc. PEACE BUILDING AWARD EMAK Search and Rescue Doraja Eberle, Fairfax County, Virginia, Fire and 1995 Founder, Bauern helfen Bauern Rescue STATESMEN OF THE YEAR Miami-Dade Urban Search and President George H.W. Bush 2002 Rescue Leonid Kuchma, STATESMAN OF THE YEAR President of Ukraine Jean Chrétien, CORPORATE Prime Minister of Canada LEADERSHIP AWARD 1994 Bechtel-Enka Joint Venture STATESMEN OF THE YEAR GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AWARD Árpád Göncz, President of Hungary John C. Whitehead, 1999 Michal Kovác, President of Slovakia Chairman, AEA Investors, Inc. STATESMAN OF David Rockefeller THE DECADE OUTSTANDING Helmut Kohl, LEADERSHIP AWARD 2001 Former Chancellor of Germany Anatoly Chubais, STATESMAN OF THE YEAR Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Vojislav Kostunica, President of the RECOGNITION OF THE 50th Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ANNIVERSARY OF THE COUNCIL OF U.S. Senator EUROPE LEADERSHIP IN ECONOMIC 1992 TRANSITION AWARDS 1998 OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP AWARD Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, STATESMEN OF THE YEAR Eduard Shevardnadze, Fmr. President of the National Emil Constantinescu, Foreign Minister of Georgia Bank of Poland President of Romania Javier Pérez de Cuellar, György Surányi, Fmr. President of the Eduard Shevardnadze, Secretary-General of the United National Bank of Hungary President of Georgia Nations Josef Tošovský, Fmr. Governor of the Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, National Bank; Fmr. Prime Minister of CORPORATE LEADERSHIP AWARD Prime Minister of Poland the Czech Republic Vagit Alekperov, President and CEO of LUKOIL eastwest.ngo 2015 Awards Dinner 7 John Edwin Mroz Global Statesman Award The EastWest Institute has established the John Edwin Mroz Global Statesman Award in memory of our late founder, president and chief executive officer. As an enlightened young man, John imagined himself becoming an instrument of global change. He made his dream a reality, dedicating his life to reducing conflict and making the world a safer and better place. He succeeded by building trust where none existed. With his vision, enormous energy and creativity, he brought diverse global leaders together who would not otherwise have met. Listening without bias or judgment, he enabled them to converse and make progress toward solving the world’s most intractable problems. This award recognizes people who share John’s vision of a peaceful world, who work passionately to achieve it and who embody his values as a trust-builder. 8 2015 Awards Dinner eastwest.ngo John Edwin Mroz Global Statesman Award eastwest.ngo 2015 Awards Dinner 9 Martti Ahtisaari 2015 John Edwin Mroz Global Statesman Award Honoree 10 2015 Awards Dinner eastwest.ngo Martti Ahtisaari 2015 John Edwin Mroz Global Statesman Award Honoree fter a distinguished career with the United Nations and the Finnish Foreign Ministry, Martti Ahtisaari was Aelected as President of the Republic of Finland in 1994. He held the position until the end of February 2000. In December 2008, President Ahtisaari was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Upon leaving the office of President of the Republic of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari has engaged in several international tasks to continue his career in international peace mediation and conflict resolution. After leaving the office of the President in 2000, Martti Ahtisaari founded Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), a non-governmental organization, to continue his legacy in helping the international community to enhance its capacity in preventive diplomacy, peace-making and post- conflict statebuilding. Today, President Ahtisaari acts as the Chairman
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