World Mayor
World Mayor is a biennial award organized by
The 2023 World Mayor Prize will be dedicated to Friendship between Cities. It will be awarded to a mayor and city that have made outstanding contributions to friendship and cooperation between towns and cities at home and across borders.
The City Mayors Foundation commissions the trophy presented as the World Mayor Prize. The trophy was designed by artist Manuel Ferrari and is handmade out of steel by the metalworker Kaspar Swankey.[5]
Notable recipients
Notable winners include (subsequent political offices): Edi Rama (Prime Minister of Albania), Dora Bakoyannis (Greek foreign minister) and Marcelo Ebrard (Mexican foreign minister), while runners-up (or top 10 finalists) have included Andrés Manuel López Obrador (President of Mexico), Job Cohen (Dutch Labour opposition leader), Joko Widodo (President of Indonesia), Gavin Newsom (Governor of California), Leopoldo López (Venezuelan opposition leader), Cory Booker (US Senator) and John Hickenlooper (US Senator and former Governor of Colorado).
Riace (Italy) mayor Domenico Lucano, who came third in the 2010 poll, was arrested in October 2018 on various immigration-related charges. The mayor of Gdańsk Paweł Adamowicz, who was assassinated in January 2019, had ranked ninth in the 2016 poll.
City Mayors Foundation
The City Mayors Foundation, also known as City Mayors, is an international think tank dedicated to urban affairs.[6] It has been active since 2003 and runs the biennial World Mayor Prize, as well as providing pro bono consultancy services. Unlike Eurocities and United Cities and Local Governments it is wholly independent of any city.[7]
Winners of the World Mayor Prize
Year | Name | Mayor of | Reference |
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2004 | Edi Rama | Tirana | [1] |
2005 | Dora Bakoyannis | Athens | [2] |
2006 | John So | Melbourne | [3] |
2008 | Helen Zille | Cape Town | [4] |
2010 | Marcelo Ebrard | Mexico City | [5] |
2012 | Iñaki Azkuna | Bilbao | [6] |
2014 | Naheed Nenshi | Calgary | [7] |
2016 | Bart Somers | Mechelen | [8] |
2018 | Valeria Mancinelli | Ancona | [9] |
2021 | Ahmed Aboutaleb | Rotterdam | [10] |
Philippe Rio | Grigny | [11] | |
2023 | Elke Kahr | Graz | [12] |
Runners up (Commendations)
Year | Name | Mayor of | Reference |
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2004 | Andrés Manuel López Obrador | Mexico City | [13] |
2005 | Hazel McCallion | Mississauga | [14] |
2006 | Job Cohen | Amsterdam | [15] |
2008 | Elmar Ledergerber | Zürich | [16] |
2010 | Mick Cornett | Oklahoma City | [17] |
2012 | Lisa Scaffidi | Perth | [18] |
2014 | Daniël Termont | Ghent | [19] |
2016 | Wolfgang Müller | Lahr | [20] |
2018 | Ros Jones, Nathalie Appéré, Charlotte Britz, Beng Climaco | Doncaster, Rennes, Saarbrücken, Zamboanga City | [21] |
References
- ^ Leach, Anna (30 December 2014). "Who will be crowned the world's best mayor for 2014?". The Guardian.
- ^ "World Mayor 2018: Raison d'etre". www.worldmayor.com.
- ^ "World Mayor 2020: Mayors fighting Poverty". www.worldmayor.com.
- ^ "Presentation of the 2021 World Mayor Prize". www.worldmayor.com.
- ^ "Kaspar Swankey". swankeypankey.com. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
- ^ Newing, Rod (18 May 2010). "Funding and social capital are key factors in financing regeneration". FT.com. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
- ^ "City Mayors: About City Mayors". citymayors.com. 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2012.