Hugh Evans, the Co-Founder and CEO of World Citizen, has turn out to be the primary Australian to be awarded the distinguished Sunhak Peace Prize.
Evans was named because the 2025 recipient of the award on the Sunhak Peace Prize Award Ceremony in Seoul, Korea on April 11, along with his management and innovation within the mission to finish excessive poverty cited as the explanation for his recognition.
The Sunhak Peace Prize has been handed out on a largely biannual foundation since 2015, with its Committee at the moment chaired by former European Fee President José Manuel Durão Barroso. Evans acquired the 2025 award alongside laureates Patrick Awuah Jr., the Ghanaian Founder and President of Ashesi College, and Wanjira Mathai, Kenyan activist and Regional Director for Africa on the World Assets Institute.
“I’m deeply honoured to obtain the 2025 Sunhak Peace Prize,” Evans stated in a press release. “Whereas over $49 billion has been dedicated towards the top of utmost poverty, impacting 1.3 billion lives, our mission is extra important now than ever earlier than. We’re rising to the problem – we’re innovating, increasing and can be activating throughout 5 continents within the coming yr.
“I share this award with our unimaginable workforce, long-standing companions, beneficiant supporters, and international residents all over the place who’ve taken motion with us over the previous decade and past.”
Evans co-founded World Citizen in 2008 alongside Michael Sheldrick, Simon Moss and Wei Soo, with the group specializing in schooling and advocacy to finish excessive poverty and promote each social justice and fairness on a worldwide scale.
World Citizen has utilized high-impact campaigns and dwell occasions in an effort to unite leaders throughout myriad fields, with its World Citizen Pageant launching in 2012 and going down in quite a few cities around the globe since.
Its most up-to-date occasion happened in New York Metropolis in September 2024, with Put up Malone, Doja Cat, Jelly Roll and Rauw Alejandro showing. On Thursday (April 10), World Citizen introduced its 2025 occasion will happen in Central Park on Sept. 27.
“As our world faces rising temperatures, rising inequality, and deepening uncertainty, this yr’s World Citizen Pageant is a chance to push for actual, lasting change,” stated chief music and leisure officer Katie Hill in a press release. “We’re excited to unite 60,000 international residents on the Nice Garden of Central Park — along with a few of the world’s largest artists and advocates — to demand motion. See you on September twenty seventh!”
Information of Evans’ award additionally coincides with World Citizen’s announcement of recent occasions, together with the forthcoming World Citizen NOW summit, November’s World Citizen Pageant: Amazonia in Brazil, and its involvement within the manufacturing of the inaugural FIFA World Cup ultimate half-time present in July 2026.
