A multi-country committee that has shown what can be achieved for farmers, fishermen and new industry by international cooperative effort in one of the world's most troubled regions

A humanitarian organization providing disaster relief and fighting poverty around the world.

An educator who trained more than 7,000 literacy teachers in educating people from India and other Asian countries

A Japanese painter famous for Silk Road paintings of dreamy desert landscapes in Iran, Iraq, and China who spearheaded efforts in protecting many world heritage sites

A Danish engineer who co-founded the Indian engineering firm Larsen & Toubro

A rural development organization which has over half a century of participatory, integrated and people-centered development in the continents of Asia, Africa, and Latin America

A research and education center established to reduce poverty and hunger, improve the health of rice farmers and consumers.

A Japanese biologist, medical doctor and professor of medicine who was the only survivor, amongst eighty high school classmates, of the 1945 Hiroshima bombing

A Korean national who organized the Sung-Ga (Holy Family) Credit Union