JURY 2020

The jury, appointed by the Tällberg Foundation’s Board of Directors, selects the Tällberg / Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winners. Jury members, who are global leaders in their own right, are drawn from a wide variety of national, cultural, and professional backgrounds; jury membership is substantially renewed every year. Each jury develops its own criteria within the broad purposes that have been laid out by the Board.

SHAHIDUL ALAM

Photographer, writer, activist and institution builder; Bangladesh

EDUARDO AMADEO

Politician, diplomat, economist and social activist; Argentina

VISHAKHA DESAI

Scholar focused on art, culture, policy, and women’s rights, Columbia University; US and India

MARY SCHNEIDER ENRIQUEZ

Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Harvard Art Museums; US

PAULA DIPERNA

Policy advisor and author focused on global environmental and philanthropic policy issues; US

ASHOK MIRPURI

Career diplomat, currently Ambassador to the United States; Singapore

ALAN STOGA

Chairman, Tällberg Foundation and President, Zemi Communications; US

ALFREDO TIMERMANS

Lawyer, telecommunications expert, policy adviser to the Partido Popular; Spain

CAROLE WAINAINA

COO at Africa 50 Infrastructure Fund, business & human relations executive public & private sectors; Kenya

CECILIA WECKSTROM

Sr Director, Diversity, Inclusion & People Innovation at Lego; UK

TOM CUMMINGS

Organizational and leadership consultant, Leading Ventures; Tällberg Foundation board; Netherlands

PREVIOUS JURY

SAFA AL-HASHEM

Kuwait; An elected MP in the Parliament of Kuwait, an accomplished businesswoman and investment banker.

DEFNE AYAS

Curator, educator, and publisher in the field of visual art; Board Member, Tällberg Foundation; Turkey/Netherlands

ABDELKADER BENALI

Writer, television maker, literary curator and honorary fellow at the University of Amsterdam; Morocco and The Netherlands

GABRIELA CUEVAS

Mexico; Federal Congresswoman, President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Geneva.

AIKO DODEN

NHK Senior commentator on International Affairs and NHK World Senior Producer, Japan

NABIL FAHMY

Egypt; Former Foreign Minister and Founding Dean, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, The American University in Cairo.

MUNI FIGUERES

Board Member, Tällberg Foundation and Former Ambassador of Costa Rica to the United States

GARY KNIGHT

United States; Photojournalist, co-founder & director of the VII Photo Agency; co-director of the VII Foundation.

SCOTT MILLER

Chief Executive Officer at Core Strategy Group and Co-Founder of Sawyer/Miller Strategic Consulting Group, US