Each year the United Nations Association of Greater Boston's Leadership Award recognizes the outstanding individuals who have made a valuable contribution to the international and local community. 

Past Year’s Honorees:

• Carol Fulp, John Hancock Financial (2011)
• Larry Finkelstein and Daniel Cheever (2011)
• Ocean Spray and National Grid (2010)
• Senator John F. Kerry, Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (2009)
• Ambassador Swanee Hunt, Hunt Alternatives Fund (2008)
• Mikko Nissinen, Artistic Director, Boston Ballet (2007)
• Dr. Barry R. Bloom, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health (2007)
• Carol Bellamy, former Executive Director, UNICEF (2006)
• John Cullinane, The Cullinane Group (2006)
• Dean Kamen, DEKA Research (2005)
• Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Director, WHO (2004)
• Noeleen Heyzer / UNIFEM (2004)
• Mahnaz Afkhami / Women's Learning Partnership (2004)
• Charles River Watershed Association (2003)
• Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (2003)
• African Medical and Research Foundation (2002)
• United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (2002)
• World Health Organization (2002)
• Marjorie Agosin, Wellesely College (1998)
• Fox Butterfield, New York Times (1998)
• Ira Jackson, BankBoston (1998)
• J.Joseph Moakley, US House of Representatives (1998)
• David Rohde, New York Times (1998)
• Joshua Rubenstein, Amnesty International (1998)
• Ambassador John Shattuck (1998)
• John F. Stewart, Kennedy Library and Museum (1998)
• Dessima Wiliams, Brandeis University (1998)

The UN Peace Bowl

Each year, we present our Leadership Award recipients with a UN Peace Bowl. In 1999, former US President Bill Clinton commissioned Master Potter Miranda Thomas of Vermont to make the first of these exquisite handmade porcelain Peace Bowls for Pope John Paul II as a personal gift. The Peace Bowl has also been presented to former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and current UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.