Boston, November 3, 2024 Dear Friends and Fellow Citizens, As we celebrate Governor Michael Dukakis’s 91st birthday today, we find ourselves reflecting on the journey we have all shared and the challenges that lie ahead. Our world stands at a crossroads, faced with...
President Volodymyr Zelensky, the 2022 World Leader for Peace and Security Award recipient, who has courageously led Ukraine in its fight against the Russian invasion, has declined a visit from U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres due to his recent participation in...
Practitioner in Cybersecurity Award Loeb House, Harvard University, December 12, 2016 Dmitri Aperovitch is a most effective practitioner of the arts of computer security. Starting his career in the late 1990s he has become a thought leader on cybersecurity policy and...
Business Leader in Cybersecurity Award Loeb House, Harvard University, December 12, 2016 Scott Charney has shown outstanding leadership of Microsoft’s trustworthy computing effort, strong support for privacy and security standards and information sharing, and has led...
The Boston Global Forum is very pleased to have received a message from German Chancellor Angela Merkel thanking the BGF for naming her a “World Leader for Peace, Security and Development’’. Gov. Michael Dukakis, BGF’s chairman, in announcing the award, said that...
(December 13, 2015) – Mr. Bruce Schneier, fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, and the Chief Technology Officer at Resilient Systems, was honored as the Business leader in the Cybersecurity “for dedicating his career to the...
(Tokyo, December 12, 2015) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe extended his appreciation for being chosen as the recipient of Boston Global Forum's World Leader in Cybersecurity Award, and expressed his commitment to take all efforts to reinforce the cybersecurity both in...
Practitioner in Cybersecurity Award Loeb House, Harvard University, December 12, 2015 Mikko Hypponen has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific America and he appears frequently on international TV. He has lectured at the universities of...