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Nominations Open for the 2025 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize

On March 15, the Tällberg Foundation opened nominations for the 2025 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize, which honors outstanding leaders from any country or discipline who demonstrate the vision and courage to tackle the complexity of today’s world....

Celebrating Global Leadership in Pavia, Italy

2024 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Prize Laureates Honored at the University of Pavia, Italy Pavia, Italy, January 22, 2025—The Tällberg Foundation celebrated the 2024 laureates of the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prizes during a special ceremony at the historic...

Kristian Olson: Empowering Innovators to Revolutionize Healthcare

A Doctor Who Listens Dr. Kristian Olson’s leadership is founded on a simple yet transformative idea: the people closest to the problems often have the best solutions. As an Internist, Pediatrician, public health expert, educator, and innovator, Olson has spent his...

Advocate of the Amazon’s River Dolphins

From Scientist to Conservation Leader Fernando Trujillo’s journey began with a simple idea: to save the Amazon’s river dolphins. There are only six extant species of river dolphins left in the world today and they are all endangered. But over the past three decades,...

Maria Teresa Ronderos: A Champion for Truth in Journalism

An Innovator of Collaborative Investigative Journalism Maria Teresa Ronderos has spent her career fighting for truth, transparency, and the power of investigative journalism. As the co-founder and director of the Center for Latin American Investigative Journalism...

Announcing the 2024 Prize Winners

Tällberg Foundation Announces 2024 Prize Winners Laureates to be Celebrated at the University of Pavia in January Stockholm and New York, November 12, 2024—The Tällberg Foundation today announced the winners of the 2024 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership...

Climb a Tree!

Winners of the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize typically have several things in common. They look at the big challenges confronting society as opportunities for innovation. They don’t celebrate process: instead, they measure success or failure by...

A Visionary Leader

Andrew Bastawrous solves problems. As a well-trained, highly skilled ophthalmologist he was devoted to treating as many patients as possible, in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa. But even gifted surgeons can only do so much, and Andrew came to realize that there were...

University of Pavia Hosts the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prizes

Meg Lowman and Andrew Bastawrous Honored Winners Celebrated at Aula Volta Ceremony The Tällberg Foundation celebrated the Winners of its prestigious global leadership prize at the University of Pavia in Italy. The Winners of the award, announced at the end of last...

Can Humanity Trump Technology?

Meet the Winners: Tristan Harris Tristan Harris, a recipient of the 2023 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize, is a leader who wants to make technology more humane, ethical, and aligned with humanity’s best interests. He is the co-founder and executive...

A Leader With Roots in the Canopy

Meet the Winners: Dr. Meg Lowman Dr. Meg Lowman, a Winner of the 2023 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize, has a vision of a world where people and nature live in harmony, where trees are valued and protected, and where everyone has the opportunity to...

Man With a Vision

Meet the Winners: Professor Andrew Bastawrous Professor Andrew Bastawrous is a man on a mission. He wants to end avoidable blindness and vision impairment everywhere in the world, and he has a powerful tool: his smartphone. “The year I first got a pair of glasses as a...

The Tällberg Foundation Announces Mentors for 2024 Tällberg Leaders Mentoring Leaders Initiative

The Tällberg Foundation Announces Mentors for 2024 Tällberg Leaders Mentoring Leaders Initiative Stockholm and New York, November 29, 2023—The Tällberg Foundation announces the mentors who will participate in its 2024 Tällberg Leaders Mentoring Leaders (TLML)...

Tällberg Foundation Announces Winners of 2023 Leadership Prize

Tällberg Foundation Announces Winners of 2023 Leadership Prize Winners to be Honored in January at the University of Pavia Stockholm and New York, November 15, 2023—The Tällberg Foundation today announced the Winners of the 2023 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global...

Tällberg Foundation Announces Innovative Mentoring Program for Emerging Leaders

Tällberg Foundation Announces Innovative Mentoring Program for Emerging Leaders Stockholm and New York, November 8, 2023—The Tällberg Foundation announces the launch of Tällberg Leaders Mentoring Leaders (TLML) which aims to identify and nurture emerging...

Jared Genser Celebrates the Release of Two Clients

Genser is an international human rights lawyer and 2020 Winner and his pro bono clients were two of the 222 political prisoners released from Nicaragua on February 9.

La Isla Network Continues To Protect Workers In A Changing Climate

La Isla Network (LIN), a global consultancy protecting manual laborers from occupational safety and health hazards, continues to deliver on its mission through collaboration with various stakeholders.

Chido Govera – Fighting poverty, one mushroom at a time

With the honorarium she received from the Prize, Chido Govera’s organization, The Future of Hope Foundation, recently conducted a training program to improve the technical skills of a cadre of mushroom farmers in Zimbabwe

Improving human and wildlife health in Uganda

Dr. Gladys’s work has forged new ways of collaborating between the sustainable development community, the Ministry of Health, and people living adjacent to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.

Creating user-friendly justice

Muller is a self-described “justice junkie.” He spent his early career in international law working in hot zones, then moved on to work with the Yugoslav Tribunal and the ICC in the Hague. Those experiences left him convinced that justice systems could offer much more value for everyday people seeking fair outcomes in legal matters.

Helping Venezuelan refugees live better lives

Like millions of her fellow Venezuelans, Lala Lovera knows what it is like to build a new life in another country. When she discovered that too many refugees in her new home of Colombia lacked access to adequate food, shelter and education, she launched Fundación Comparte Por Una Vida Colombia (CPUV Colombia).

Changing the lives of blind children, one football at a time

Like many millions around the world, Greece’s Elias Mastoras loves football. Unlike anyone else, he found a way to share his passion with blind children not only allowing them to play and enjoy the “beautiful game,” but also to participate more fully in social life.

Speaking truth to power in Russia

Yevgenia Albats is a Russian investigative journalist, radio host, political scientist, and author. More importantly, she’s a long-time, outspoken critic of the Russian government and its domination by the security services.

Building resilient societies one mushroom at a time

Vulnerable people need hope—but they also need food and income. Chido Govera, a Zimbabwean social entrepreneur, farmer, and educator, uses mushrooms to provide all of that and more.

Leadership Special: Tero Mustonen, 2021 Prize Laureate

The head of Selkie, a village in Eastern Finland, Tero Mustonen, is currently the chairperson of Snowchange and is actively “undoing the damage” done to Northern and Arctic ecosystems over the past century to survive our current one. “When we are rewilding, we are...

Leadership Special: Asha de Vos, 2021 Prize Laureate

Asha de Vos, a Winner of the 2021 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize, is almost single-handedly changing the global marine conservation game. At 24, she discovered a non-migratory population of blue whales in Sri Lanka—an animal as elusive as it is...

Emerging Leadership Special: 2021 Prize Winners

In 2021, the Foundation announced two Winners in the newly established category of emerging leaders. Pashtana Durrani, for her efforts to promote childhood digital literacy as a pillar of a new approach to education in the face of the brutal and violent political and...

Insurgent leadership

While the incumbent establishment fears and resists change, the insurgent embraces change, because change means opportunity. By Scott Miller, CEO, Core Strategy Group, USA March, 2017 To know is to change. To know more is to change more. To know instantly and...

Values added

Can leadership succeed without “a moral compass”? No, says Tallberg Foundation chairman Alan Stoga, who with nine other jurors deliberated over the criteria that inform the foundation’s annual Tällberg-SNF- Eliasson Global Leadership Prize. “If you don’t have a sense...

Rethinking Global Leadership in Contested Terrains

Global leaders recognize the constraints of local and national contexts, but they never let such constraints come in their way. By Dr. Vishakha N.Desai, Senior Advisor for Global Affairs to the President of Columbia University and Senior Research Scholar at the School...

Announcing our Winners for the 2021 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize

ASHA DE VOS AND TERO MUSTONEN AWARDED 2021 TÄLLBERG-SNF-ELIASSON GLOBAL LEADERSHIP PRIZES Pashtana Durrani and Christian Ntizimira named in emerging leader category To be honored on December 8 Stockholm and New York, November 9, 2021—Today the Tällberg...

Announcing our Finalists for the 2021 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize

Tällberg Foundation Announces Finalists for 2021 Leadership Awards Introduces New Award for Emerging Leaders Stockholm and New York, October 5, 2021—Today the Tällberg Foundation announced finalists for the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize, which...

Leadership Special: Nithya Ramanathan, Engineer working to improve human health with sensory intelligence

In this special podcast episode, you will meet Nithya Ramanathan, one of the 2020 prize Winners talk to a 2020 juror, Cecilia Weckstrom. Nithya is an engineer and social entrepreneur, saving lives through the innovative application of technology, creating and applying data-driven solutions to global challenges.

Join the Webinar: Sustainable Democracy?

A panel of young leaders from Hungary, Venezuela, Poland and South Sudan, who are on the front lines of fighting for real, sustainable democracy, will discuss what they have learned in their struggles and how we can make the forces for good governance more muscular....

Leadership Special: Jared Genser, international human rights lawyer

In this special podcast episode you will meet Jared Genser, one of the three 2020 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership prize Winners. Jared is an international human rights lawyer who has spent his career practicing law, engaging in serious scholarship, and teaching and mentoring the next generation of human rights lawyers. Listen, as he is interviewed by Shahidul Alam, photographer, writer, curator and activist and a member of the 2020 prize jury.

Leadership Special: Sylvia Earle interview

Today’s world is short of a lot of things—sustainable environment, peace, prosperity, equality—but what we lack most is innovative, global, values-based leadership. If we can find and nurture that kind of leadership, the rest will follow. In this podcast episode, you will meet Sylvia Earle, one of the three 2020 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership prize Winners.

Announcement: The Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Joins the Tällberg Foundation in Presenting the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize Stockholm and New York, March 29, 2021—Today the Tällberg Foundation announced that it has renamed its flagship leadership prize...

True Blue

Sylvia Earle, behaves like a woman running out of time, which she is. The world’s foremost oceanographer, she is on the road most of the year, and has logged countless hours underwater since her first dive, in a Florida river, when she was 16.

Objections Sustained

Sara Hossain, connects the dots between healthcare, freedom of speech, and right to information, and combined strategic litigation with consensus-building.

Data Minded

Nithya Ramanathan, co-founded Nexleaf in 2009, the company has focused on clean cook-stove technologies, vaccine temperature monitors, and improved NICU care. The cutting-edge data collection is just the first step. What distinguishes her works is the ability to put the right data in front of the right person, and have the right conversation at the right time.

Believing It’s Possible

As founder of the Open Source Pharma Foundation, which is creating a crowd-sourced alternative to the pharmaceutical industry, Jaykumar Menon feels he may have met his moment. Just a couple of years ago, “We were considered crazy people,” he says. “And now I think we...

The Ripple Effect

Meet Jared Genser, finalist for this years prize, referred to by the New York Times as “The Extractor” for his work freeing political prisoners worldwide, his client list has included people like Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Desmond Tutu, Liu Xiaobo, and Elie Wiesel.

Our Wildlife, Our Selves

Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka have made a connection that most of the world is only now beginning to get: The well-being of humans and animals are inextricably linked. Read the story of one of this years finalists.

Writing on the wall

Meet one of the 2020 Eliasson Global Leadership Prize finalists, Bahia Shehab, a historian, street artist and professor of graphic design.

Announcing the 2020 Tällberg Eliasson Global Leadership Prize Finalists

Today the Tällberg Foundation announced seven finalists for the Tällberg Eliasson Global Leadership Prize, which is given annually to leaders from a wide range of disciplines and countries whose work is global, based on universal values, courageous and impactful.

Is Europe’s future green or black?

In this episode of the podcast, Danish politician and former President of the UN General Assembly Mogens Lykketoft argues that these inter-related challenges demand urgent action—and that if humanity moves fast, we could find new paths to a new, shared prosperity.

The American Condition

In this week’s podcast episode, Scott Miller and Josh Steiner explore the potential impact of the pandemic on longer term trends shaping the United States.

Recordings from Webinars

Last week the Tällberg Foundation network was invited to join two webinars: “Disruptive Technologies: Good, Bad and Ugly” and “Global Order Amidst Global Disorder”. If you missed the panel discussions, you can watch them here.

Taking Democracy’s Temperature

Too many people in too many countries do not trust their leaders to act in their national interest or, at the extreme, even to hold fair elections. This article is a product of the survey on confidence and democracy we asked our global network to take part in a couple of weeks ago.

Climate after Covid

In this podcast episode, Christiana Figueres discusses the possibility of leveraging the massive political and economic resources that governments around the world are mobilizing to stimulate the global, regional, national, corporate, and individual actions needed to cut emissions in half by the end of the decade.

The value(s) of democracy

Podcast: Democracy is under huge pressure everywhere, Bngladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam discusses issues from the perspective of a country which struggles to conduct fair elections, where inequality is extreme and poverty even more so.

Will Democracy Survive Covid-19?

In this podcast episode, Gabriela Cuevas and Paula DiPerna, discuss the risk that our democracies could be another casualty of Covid-19—and what we should do about it.

Understanding Coronavirus and its Implications

Anne Goldfeld, 2019 Prize Winner, discusses what we know about Covid19 and what we still need to learn–and why it is a global problem that needs a global response.

What is a Thought?

In this week’s episode of the Tällberg Foundation Podcast we will explore questions as could our evolving understanding of the human brain lead to a new Renaissance? What are the implications of this new knowledge? How do we protect each individual’s neural identity?