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Rae Kwon Chung (Republic of Korea): Member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, Professor Emeritus at Institute of Convergence, Science and Technology of Incheon National University
Adnan Amin (USA): Senior Researcher of Harvard University, Director General Emeritus of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Thomas Albert Blees: (USA): President of the Science Council for Global Initiatives (SCGI)
Marta Bonifert (Hungary): Vice President, Institute of Directors Hungary (IoD), Member of the global advisory board of Tokyo University
Frederick Bordry (Switzerland): Director for Accelerators and Technology of European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN)
William Il Young Byun (Singapore/Republic of Korea/USA): Managing Director at Asia Renewables, Head of Greenpower Fuels, and Principal at Conchubar Infrastructure Fund, Independent Director at the International Green Technologies and Investment Projects Center
Nikolay Voropay (Russia): Scientific Adviser of Melentiev Energy Systems Institute Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
Steven Griffiths (USA/UAE): Senior Vice President, Research and Development Professor of Practice, Khalifa University of Science and Technology
Aleksey Kontorovich (Russia): Chief researcher, Laboratory of Theoretical Bases of Oil and Gas Potential of the Forecast of IPGG SB RAS, RAS Academician
Nikolay Kudryavtsev (Russia): Independent Director, Sberbank
Dietrich Moeller (Germany): Consultant of German-Russian Chamber of Commerce
Yury Petrenya (Russia): Chair of the Energy and Electric Engineering, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Nikolay Rogalev (Russia): Rector of Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MPEI)
Xiansheng Sun (China): Director General of Energy Industry Cooperation, Vice President of China Council for International Trade Promotion, Honorary Professor, University of Dundee
Liye Xiao (China): Director of Applied Superconductivity Laboratory, CAS, Director Of Interdisciplinary Research Center Institute of Electrical Engineering, CAS
Nobuo Tanaka (Japan/USA): Special Advisor, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF), CEO, Tanaka Global, Inc.
David Faiman (Israel): Professor Emeritus of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

=== Board of trustees ===

The board of trustees of the association is responsible for supervision of its general management. It includes:

Oleg Budargin: Chairman of The Board Of Trustees, Vice-chairman of The World Energy Council Vice-chairman of The Global Energy Interconnection Development And Cooperation Organisation (GEIDCO)
Vladimir Bogdanov: CEO, Surgutneftegas
Mikhail Gorbachev: President, International Fund for Socio-economic and political research (Gorbachev Foundation)
Mikhail Gutseriev: Chairman of the Board, Russneft
Arkady Dvorkovich: Co-chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation
Alexei Likhachev: Director General, Rosatom
Alexei Miller: Chairman of the management committee, Gazprom
Andrei Murov: First Deputy General Director – Executive Director, Rosseti
Alexander Novak: Russian Deputy Prime Minister
Vyacheslav Solomin: Chief Operating Officer, En+ Group
Abdel Didier Tella (Ivory Coast): General Director, Association of Power Utilities of Africa (APUA)
Julio Maria Sanguinetti Coirolo (Uruguay): Honorary Doctor, University of Brazil, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia), National University of Asuncion (Paraguay), Universiti Malaya (Malaysia), University of Genoa (Italy), University of Bucharest (Romania), Universidad del Rosario (Colombia), Universidad de Alicante (Spain)

== Laureates ==
Since 2003, 56 scientists from 16 countries were awarded. Among them people from Australia, the UK, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Canada, China, Russia, the US, Ukraine, France, Switzerland, Sweden and Japan. The laureates are presented an honorary medal, a statuette, a diploma and a golden honorary pin (besides monetary amount).
Nominations are accepted from scientists and/or organizations through representatives. They have to be preliminarily authorized by the Association. Among them are Nobel Prize laureates, laureates of prizes such as Kyoto Prize, Max Planck Prize, Wolf Prize, Balzan Prize, past Global Energy Prize laureates.

== References ==

== External links ==

Prize's English website