Awards and
Recognition

2024 UN Day

  • Keynote Speaker
    Peter Yeo
  • Global Citizen Awardee
    Rajmohan Gandhi
  • Global Impact Award
    Baker Hughes
  • Global Visionary Award
    The Ismaili Council-SW

2023 UN Day

  • Global Citizen Awardee
    Nasruddin Rupani
    Founder of Rupani Foundation 
  • Global Citizen Awardee
    Houston Afghan Resettlement Agency (HARC)
    Catholic Charities – Interfaith Ministries – The Alliance – YMCA-GH. 

2022 UN DAY

  • Keynote Speaker
    Hon. David M. Satterfield
    Director, Baker Institute for Public Policy
  • Featured Guest
    Michele J. Sison
    ASSISTANT SECRETARY
    BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS
  • Global Citizen Awardee:
    Brian Greene
    President/CEO, Houston Food Bank
  • Global Citizen Awardee: 
    Chris Williams
    Founder, Lucille’s Hospitality Group + Founder & Executive Director, Lucille’s 1913

2021 UN DAY

  • Global Citizen Awardee
    Dr. Joseph Varon
    Chairman of the Board of United Memorial Medical Center and United General Hospital
  • Marjorie A Joseph
    Global Citizen Awardee and Keynote Speaker
    Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield, US Ambassador to the United Nations- Featured Speaker

2020 UN DAY

  • Dr. Deepak Chopra
    Founder, Chopra Center for Wellbeing
    Honored Special Guest and Global Citizen Leader
  • Dr. Souymya Swaminathan
    Chief Scientist, World Health Organization
    Keynote Speaker
  • Mayor Sylvester Turner
    Global Citizen Leader
  • Dolores Goble
    Lifetime Achievement
  • Dorothy Wolfe | Wolfe Energy
    Global Citizen Corporate

2019

  • Leslee Udwin, Founder & CEO of THINK EQUAL2012 Patrick Madden, Exec. Director UNA/USA

2018

  • Jonathan Ryan, Exec. Director, RAICES

2017

  • Mary Beth Goodman, Senior Consultant, World Bank

2016

  • Simon Henshaw, Principal Deputy Asst. Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration

2015

  • Hon. Robert Faucher, Officer of International Organizations, US Dept. of State

2014

  • Hon. Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for UN Secretary General

2013

  • Hon. Aaron Sherinian, Vice-President UN Foundation

2011

  • Esther Brimmer, US Asst. Secretary of State for International Affairs

2010

  • Gillian Sorensen, Senior Advisor, UN Foundation

2009

  • David Bosco, author, Five to Rule Them All: The UN Security Council and the Making of theModern World

2008

  • Friedrich Soltan – UN Sustainable Development Officer, Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs
  • Joan Dodd – COO Sunlight Solar, Inc. (Houston)

2007

  • Mark Kline, M.D. Baylor College of Medicine, International Pediatric AIDS Initiative

Lifetime Achievement Award

2020

  • Dolores Goble

2018

  • David Timms
  • Sara Timms

2017

  • Hon. William J Cunningham
  • Patricia Cunningham

2016

  • Sunny TangWorld Refugee Day

2015

  • Henry Horne, Jr.

2014

  •  Vincent Maggio

2013

  • Carol GroppeMarch

2012

  • Dr. Anna Louise Bruner

Global Impact Award

2024

  • Allyson A. Book, Chief Sustainability Officer – Baker Hughes

2015

  • Her Excellency Cynthia Shepard Perry, US Ambassador to Sierra Leone and Burundi

2014

  • Ambassador Edward P Djerejian, Founder & Director, Baker Institute of Public Policy

2013

  • University of Houston, Dr. Renu Khator, Chancellor

2012

  • University of St. Thomas, Dr. Robert Ivany, President

Global Citizen Corporate Award

2020

  • Dorothy Wolfe | Wolfe Energy

2018

  • Chevron Corporation, Telisa Toliver, Senior Vice-President Business Development & Strategy

2017

  • Vinmar International, Vijay Goradia, Founder & Chairman

2016

  • Schlumberger Limited, Jean-François Poupeau, Exec. Vice-President

Global Citizen Community Award

2024

  • Rajmohan Gandhi, Author, Historian

2023

  • Houston Afghan Resettlement Collaborative (HARC)
  • Mr. Nasruddin Rupani, Founder of Ibn-i Sina Foundation and Rupani Foundation
2023

  • Houston Afghan Resettlement Collaborative (HARC)
  • Mr. Nasruddin Rupani, Founder of Ibn-i Sina Foundation and Rupani Foundation

2022

  • Brian Greene, President/CEO, Houston Food Bank
  • Chris Williams, Founder, Lucille’s Hospitality Group + Founder & Executive Director, Lucille’s 1913

2021

  • Dr. Joseph Varon, Chairman of the Board of United Memorial Medical Center and United General Hospital
  • Marjorie A Joseph

2020

  • Mayor Sylvester Turner

2019

  • Harry Gee, Jr. Immigration Lawyer, Gee, and Zhang, LLP
  • Paula McCann Harris, Director of Global Stewardship/Educational Programming, Schlumberger

2018

  • Jim McIngvale, President, Gallery Furniture
  • Senfronia Thompson, Texas State Representative, District 141
2017

  • Oni K. Blair, Executive Director LINK, Houston
  • Wea H. Lee, Chairman, Southern News Group Houston
  • Dr. Bandula Wijay, Ambassador of Science Technology & Innovation, Sri Lanka CEO LeoMed LLC, and BinLab, Inc. Houston

Global Visionary Award

2024

  • Faisal Momin, President- Ismaili Council Southwestern USA