World Leaders in AIWS Award Updates
Macron and Pope Leo XIV Affirm the Importance of Dialogue for Peace

Macron and Pope Leo XIV Affirm the Importance of Dialogue for Peace

On April 10, President Emmanuel Macron, the 2024 World Leader for Peace and Security Award recipient, met Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican in their first personal audience. Vatican News reported that discussions centered on international conflicts and the hope that peace...

PM Sanae Takaichi joins G7 Leaders’ Online Meeting

PM Sanae Takaichi joins G7 Leaders’ Online Meeting

On March 11, 2026, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, recipient of the 2023 World Leader in AIWS Award from the Boston Global Forum, joined a G7 Leaders’ Online Meeting held under the chairmanship of France, this year’s G7 Presidency, to discuss the escalating...

Causal Inference + AIWS: A Practical Path to a New Iran

Causal Inference + AIWS: A Practical Path to a New Iran

Following reports circulating internationally about a major turning point in Iran’s leadership, Professor Judea Pearl (UCLA)—the pioneer of Causal Inference and the 2020 AIWS World Leader Award recipient—posted on X that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei had...

Tokyo hopes voters will hand PM Takaichi new clout to counter China

Tokyo hopes voters will hand PM Takaichi new clout to counter China

Tokyo’s strategy, as described by Reuters, is to use the Feb. 8 snap election to give Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi—a 2023 World Leader in AIWS Award recipient and BGF Global Enlightenment Leader—a stronger mandate. “China may rethink its escalating pressure campaign...