Now accepting nominations!
We are looking for exceptional global leaders who aren’t afraid to go against the grain to make the world better; approach big problems with bold, innovative solutions; and whose work is global in both its aspiration and implication.
If that sounds like a leader you know, nominate them now!”
About the Prize
The Tällberg Foundation’s core purpose is identifying, honoring, nurturing, and networking outstanding leaders. The kind of women and men who understand the challenges our societies face, who take the risks and who—above all—produce impact.
In alignment with that ethos, we established the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize. The prize name honors the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), whose support makes it possible, and Jan Eliasson, one of the most accomplished global diplomats of our era. Both SNF and Jan share Tällberg’s deep commitment to encouraging positive global change.
The Prizes are awarded annually to outstanding leaders who demonstrate the willingness and capacity to address the complexity of 21st-century challenges and whose work is global in aspiration or implication and is rooted in universal values. The world faces accelerating climate change, disruptive technology, increasing conflict and war, massive numbers of displaced people seeking safety, and the breakup of the post-war global order that framed and facilitated the great human advances of the past decades. We seek leaders who believe they can bend the arc of history.
In 2025, through the generous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), we will award three prizes. Each Winner is celebrated by their peers, receives an unrestricted grant of $50,000, and is invited to join the Tällberg network of global leaders. Indeed, the ongoing engagement with other leaders working for positive change at the global level is an integral element of the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize.
What kind of leaders are we looking for?
- Leaders who are innovative, courageous, dynamic, and ethical.
- Leaders who might work in dramatically different fields and geographies, but share the recognition that global problems demand global solutions.
- Leaders who seize the moment instead of waiting for politicians to stop squabbling and act.
- Leaders who reject the lengthening list of “isms”—nationalism, exceptionalism, racism, wokeism, the list goes on—that substitute for thought today.
Prize winners are honored not only for what they have already accomplished but for their commitment and capacity to continue seeking the kinds of positive change our societies demand.
Who is eligible?
We believe that great leaders exist in every corner of the world and in every discipline. If you know someone who meets the Prize criteria—an innovative, courageous leader tackling global challenges—nominate that person. Nominations are open to anyone, anywhere, except for Prize jurors and the candidates themselves.
The nomination process is conducted through an open, online platform. In 2025, nominations open on March 15 and close on May 15. Submit nominations through the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize website: tallberg-snf-eliasson-prize.org/nominate.
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The Nomination Process
1. Nominations
Anyone, anywhere can make nominations (except Prize jurors and the nominees themselves). Nominations are open from March 15 – May 15, 2025 for leaders who demonstrate the willingness and capacity to address the complexity of 21st-century challenges in innovative, risk-taking, and ethical ways, and whose work is global in aspiration or implication.
2. Jury
Nominations are reviewed, researched, and judged by Tällberg staff and a pre-jury of global leaders; the process is designed to define a pool of nominations for consideration by the full jury.
The Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Jury is composed of leaders from different countries, disciplines, experiences and backgrounds.
3. Celebrate!
After considering scores of nominations, the jury will select the winners and complete its deliberations in October, and winners of the three Prizes will be announced in November.
The Winners are invited to celebrations and explorations of global leadership in January, 2026, where they will join past laureates, jury members and other global leaders.
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Who makes this possible?
Sponsor
The Tällberg Foundation, launched in 1981, exists to explore the issues that are challenging —and changing— our societies. Today, those challenges are profound: the world that we have known since the mid 20th century, which produced unprecedented peace as well as human advance, is changing at a pace and in directions that threaten to evolve towards Orwellian dystopia.
But forces for “good” still exist and need to be renewed, made more muscular and more effective. The Foundation aspires to be part of that process.
Tällberg’s work program focuses on understanding how to re-inject ethics into leadership; re-establish the legitimacy of governance; and manage, instead of being managed by, disruptive technologies, climate change, mass migration and other phenomena. We aim to contribute to the new thinking —and new acting— required by this moment in history.
Learn more at tallbergfoundation.org
Lead Supporter
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) is one of the world’s leading private, international philanthropic organizations, making grants to nonprofit organizations in the areas of arts and culture, education, health and sports, and social welfare. SNF supports organizations and projects worldwide that aim to achieve a broad, lasting, and positive impact for society at large, and exhibit strong leadership and sound management. The Foundation also supports projects that facilitate the formation of public-private partnerships as an effective means for serving the public welfare.
Since 1996, the Foundation has committed more than $3.8 billion through over 5,500 grants to nonprofit organizations in more than 130 countries around the world.
Learn more at SNF.org.