Boston Global Forum Awards
These awards are nominated and selected annually by the Boston Global Forum Board of Directors, distinguished contributors, and thinkers.
BGF World Leader for Peace and Security Award
Boston Global Forum recognizes and honors distinguished leaders for their exemplary leadership and contributions in promoting peace and security in the world with the World Leader for Peace and Security Award. The first recipients of the award were Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2015.
World Leaders in AI World Society
Boston Global Forum recognizes and honors distinguished leaders for their exemplary leadership and contributions in promoting artificial intelligence for a better world with the World Leader in AIWS Award. The first recipient of the award was the OECD General Secretary José Ángel Gurría in 2018.
Global Enlightenment Leaders
Global Enlightenment Leaders are distinguished contributors to the book “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment” and leaders, thinkers who support, practice, implement concepts, principles, ideas, initiatives, solutions of the book “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment”.
UPDATES ON AWARDS AND AWARDEES
President Macron, 2024 World Leader for Peace and Security, Welcomes Pope Leo XIV to Paris
On September 25, 2026, President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Pope Leo XIV to the Élysée Palace as the Pope opened his apostolic journey to France. Their talks covered climate change, artificial intelligence, the war in Ukraine, and peace in the Middle East. Pope Leo called on France to remain "a tireless...
Nguyen Anh Tuan to Present the Constitution for Humanity in the Age of AI at UNGA Side Event
Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Founder, Co-Chair and CEO of the Boston Global Forum and Founder and Chief Architect of AIWS, will speak at the XXXVII High-Level Meeting, “Rebuilding Trust, Cooperation and Global Stability for a Shared Future,” on September 23–24, 2026, at the Harvard Club of New York City. Organized as...
Stuart Russell: Human Control Cannot Be an Afterthought
On September 7, at Westminster, Professor Stuart Russell — America 250: AI Pioneer and a Founding Signatory of The Boston Declaration — told an audience of British parliamentarians that advanced AI carries the risk of a catastrophe on the scale of Chernobyl, and then named a larger one: "The other...
HUMAN–AI CO-CREATION, Finding the Ideas Humanity Should Not Miss
The AI Age is producing extraordinary ideas at unprecedented speed. Yet many of the most creative and pioneering ideas remain unseen — not because they lack value, but because their creators lack money, institutional influence, established reputations, or the resources to hire professional communications firms. Major news organizations, constrained by...
AI Pioneers Debate What Comes Next
Fei-Fei Li and Andrew Ng—honored by BGF as America at 250: AI Pioneers—join Geoffrey Hinton in a landmark conversation on the future of AI At Ai4 2026 in Las Vegas, Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li and Andrew Ng offered sharply different perspectives on AI’s existential risks, impact on employment, open-weight models...
A Call to Co-Create a New Civilization in the Age of AI
Boston Global Forum · August 16, 2026 Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Founder, Co-Chair and CEO of the Boston Global Forum and Founder and Chief Architect of AIWS, has issued an open letter to the distinguished leaders and AI pioneers honored by the Boston Global Forum: recipients of the World Leader for Peace...
Jeff Dean Leaves Google to Launch Discovery Loop
An AI Pioneer honored at Loeb House turns to automating discovery itself On August 5, 2026, Jeff Dean, chief scientist at Google, announced his departure after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation, where he will serve as chief executive. He is joined by Sanjay Ghemawat, a...
AI Pioneers SAM ALTMAN And JENSEN HUANG Confront The Public Responsibilities Of AI Power
On July 27, Reuters reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang would meet Senator Mark Warner of the Senate Intelligence Committee, following OpenAI's disclosure that one of its agents had escaped containment during a cyber evaluation and compromised external infrastructure. The two represent inseparable layers of...
Three America at 250: AI Pioneers at the San Francisco AI Summit
San Francisco, July 24, 2026 President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea convened an AI summit at The Midway in San Francisco on Friday and unveiled the San Francisco AI Declaration. The commitments around it were extraordinary: an initiative exceeding 500 billion dollars from Nvidia and SK Group, and a...
Two BGF Honorees Meet at the G7: von der Leyen and Takaichi at Évian
At the G7 Évian Summit (June 15-17, 2026), two leaders previously honored by the Boston Global Forum came together: Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission and recipient of the 2020 World Leader for Peace and Security Award, and Sanae Takaichi, Prime Minister of Japan and recipient of...