OTHER AWARDS

The Whitely Awards are made annually by the Whitely Fund for Nature to recognize and celebrate effective national and regional conservation leaders across the globe.

The awards particularly seek to recognize contributions to wildlife conservation made from outside the developed world, and to bring to international attention to the work of deserving individuals committed to precipitating long – lasting conservation benefits on the ground.

• Founder : Edward Whitely (UK)
• Established : 1994

The Right Livelihood Award is an international award to “honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today.”

Although it is promoted as an “Alternative Nobel Prize”.

Given annually in early December.

• Since : 1980
• Founder : Jacob Von Uexkull (German – Swedish Philanthropist)
• Country : Sweden
• 1st Person : Hassan Fathy (Egypt) Plenty International (USA + Lesotho + Guatemala)

The World Food Prize is an international award recognizing the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world

Given on 16th October every year

• October 16 : World Food Day
• Since : 1987
• Location : Des Moines, Lowe, United States
• 1st Person : M S Swaminathan (India)
• For 2021 : Dr Shakuntala Hark Singh Thilstad (India)

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in Newspaper, Magazine, Online Journalism, Literature and Musical composition in the United States

Named after Joseph Pulitzer (Hungarian – born American)

Pulitzer Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty one categories

• Since : 1917
• Country : Columbia University, USA
• For 2019 : ---

The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually “to honour a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture

Nobel in Architecture

• Since : 1979
• Founder : Jay A Pritzker
• Country : United States
• 1st Person : Philip Johnson (USA)
• For 2019 : Arata Isozaki (Japan)

The Templeton Prize is an annual award presented by the Templeton Foundation, established in 1972.

It is awarded to a living person who, in the estimation of the judges, “has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life’s spiritual dimension, whether through insight, discovery, or practical works.

Named after Sir John Templeton (1912 – 2008), an American born British entrepreneur and Businessman.

• Since : 1979
• Country : United States
• 1st Person : Mother Teresa (India)
• For 2021 : Anne Lacaton (France) + Jean Phillippe (France)

The Tang Prize is a set of biennial international awards bestowed in a no. of categories by panels of judges convened by Academia Sincia, Taiwan’s top research institution

The Tang Prize is awarded for …

• Since : 2014
• Founder : Samuel Yin (Taiwan)
• Country : Taiwan

For 2020

• Sinology : Wang Gangwu (Australia)
• Rule of Law : Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association Dejusticia : The Centre for Law, Justice and Society (Colombia) The Legal Agenda (Lebanon)
• Sustainable Development : Jane Goodall (UK)
• Biopharmaceutical Science : Charles Dinarello (USA) Tadamitsu Kishimoto (Japan) Mark Feldmann (Australian – Britain)

The Golden Peacock Awards instituted by the “Institute of Directors”, India in 1991, are now regarded as a benchmark of Corporate Excellence worldwide

• Since : 1991
• Publisher : Institute of Directors
• For 2020 : Steel Authority of India (SAIL)

• Since : 2008
• Publisher : ICFA (Indian Council of Food & Agriculture)
• For 2018 : Given to 20 Persons

The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year awards or EY Entrepreneur of the year awards is an award sponsored by Ernst & Young in recognition of entrepreneurship.

• Since : 1986
• Place : London
• For 2020 : Kiran Mazundar Shaw (India)

The Ernst & Young Lifetime Achievement Award is given by Ernst & Young famously known as EY is a multinational professional services firm and is one of the “Big Four” accounting firms

• For 2020 : Dr. Pratap Chandra Reddy (India)