Founder and leader of India's National Slum Dwellers Federation whose lifelong endeavor is to change the situation of millions of poor people in city slums for the better

A simple housewife who became a widow and a symbol of a popular and peaceful revolution that deposed a tyrant

A Christian pastor, founded the Asian Rural Institute which trains rural leaders from the entire developing world to become more effective change-makers in poor communities

Asia's premier business management learning institution based in the Philippines

Argentinean Jesuit missionary, with a doctorate in architectural engineering, working in Asia for almost 20 years to find effective solutions to the housing problems of urban areas in the region

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 Filipino accountant and industrialist who founded the Asian Institute of Management and the accounting firm SGV & Company

Organized by Asian editors and publishers to make journalism a positive influence in the political and economic maturation of their societies

Asia's leading post-graduate institution based in Thailand that promotes technological change and sustainable development in the region.