Leaders who have more potential than track record are critical to our collective futures. Many such leaders are nominated for the Prize, and several have won it. However, we believe that the Tällberg Foundation is well placed to identify emerging leaders because of our global network, philosophy and belief in the permeability of borders and barriers. We have an obligation to nurture such emerging leaders, people who have already accomplished much and whose future promises much, much more.

Our solution, in addition to welcoming emerging leaders in the overall Prize competition, is to invite roughly two dozen emerging leaders from the pool of nominations to participate in the Tällberg Foundation’s Emerging Leaders Mentoring Program. That initiative matches emerging leaders with the global leaders who populate our network, including past Prize laureates, in a focused, year-long process of conversation and collaboration designed to accelerate the development of high-potential leaders.

In 2015 we named the Prize in honor of Jan Eliasson—Swedish diplomat, former U.N. Deputy Secretary-General, and the epitome of a global action-oriented thinker. In 2021 we added “SNF” to the Prize name to recognize the tremendous support that the Tällberg Foundation receives from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). Under the leadership of Co-President Andreas Dracopoulos, SNF has become one of the most dynamic and innovative global philanthropic organizations—one that uses its resources and imagination to promote positive global change. We are incredibly proud of the opportunity to collaborate in that effort.

Anyone, anywhere.  Candidates are nominated through an open, online process and ultimately selected by a jury of international leaders.  This year the nomination process begins on March 15 and will end on May 15.  Anyone, anywhere—except for prize jurors—may nominate.  

Once the nominations are submitted, they will be 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. Ultimately, they consider scores of nominations and select winners eligible for our mentoring program. That selection process entails successive rounds of secret balloting, which means that all jurors have equal weight in the selection process. In effect, each year’s jury defines its own criteria, and every nominee is judged individually.

The jury will complete its deliberations in September, winners of the three Prizes will be announced in early November and celebrated in early December, 2023.

Once the nominations are submitted, they will be 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. Ultimately, they consider scores of nominations and select a pool of emerging leaders eligible for our mentoring program. That selection process entails successive rounds of secret balloting, which means that all jurors have equal weight in the selection process. In effect, each year’s jury defines its own criteria, and every nominee is judged individually.

The jury will complete its deliberations in September. Then in October, roughly two dozen emerging leaders from the pool of nominations will be notified and invited in to participate in the Tällberg Foundation’s Emerging Leaders Mentoring Program. That initiative matches emerging leaders with the global leaders who populate our network, including past Prize laureates, in a focused, year-long process of conversation and collaboration designed to accelerate the development of high-potential leaders.

The Foundation’s board believes that many societies, as well as the global system, are at or approaching inflection points. Institutions, paradigms, and societal norms are under enormous pressure to change, but old habits die hard, even if they no longer are adequate to deal with new realities. That puts great value on courageous leaders and innovative leadership.

The Tällberg Foundation aspires to identify, reward, and thereby promote leaders and leadership behaviors that have the potential to produce positive change in the face of significant resistance.

The current form and format of the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize was established in 2015; however, the Tällberg Foundation has been recognizing principled global leadership since 2005.
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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 funds 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 public welfare.

Since 1996, the Foundation has committed more than $3.5 billion through over 5,200 grants to nonprofit organizations in more than 130 countries around the world.

Learn more at SNF.org. 

Information and nomination materials are available on this website: www.tallberg-snf-eliasson-prize.org. In addition, contact prize@tallbergfoundation.org.