Schwab Foundation Social Innovation Awards 2025 | World Economic Forum | 4 March 2025 | TBA

The Schwab Foundation’s 2025 Awards seeks to honour social change leaders, across a diversity of social innovation models in society in four different award categories:

• Social Entrepreneurs
• Corporate Social Innovators
• Public Social Innovators
• Collective Social Innovation Award

The Schwab Foundation recently incorporated a new award category, the Collective Social Innovation Award, to recognise evolving systemic approaches to social change. Inspired by the collective approaches developed by social entrepreneurs over the years, collectives are groups or networks of organisations committed to addressing a bigger problem than what an individual organization can take on and best suited to achieving large scale, system-level change.

2024 Awardees

Social Entrepreneurs
• Rudayna Abdo, Thaki
• Gerald Abila, BarefootLaw
• Shuchin Bajaj, Ujala Cygnus Healthcare Services
• Catalina Cock Duque, Fundacion Mi Sangre
• Temie Giwa-Tubosun, LifeBank Technology and Logistics Services Ltd
• Ajaita Shah, Frontier Markets
• Xia Li, Shenzhen Power-Solution Ltd
• Mohamed Amine Zariat, Tibu Africa

Corporate Social Innovator
• Saugata Banerjee, EssilorLuxottica
• Ruchika Singhal, Medtronic Labs

Collective Social Innovation
• Jennifer Blatz, StriveTogether
• Vanessa Carlo-Miranda, StriveTogether
• Belen Paez, Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance (Cuencas Sagradas Amazonicas)
• Uyunkar Domingo Peas Nampichkai, Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance (Cuencas Sagradas Amazonicas)
• Atossa Soltani, Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance (Cuencas Sagradas Amazonicas)

Public Social Innovator
• Chantal Line Carpentier, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
• Angela Gichaga, Financing Alliance for Health
• Colin Groth, StriveTogether

Public Social Innovator
• Juan Manuel Martinez Louvier, Instituto Nacional de la Economia Social (INAES)
• Vivi Yulaswati, Ministry of National Development Planning of Indonesia