Knowledge
Management
Award
And the Winners 2025 are…
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Bruce Boyes
Category: Individual Winner -
Inter-American Development Bank
Category: International Organization
KM Award Ceremony 2025
Join the KM Award Ceremony on 11 December 2025, 17:00-19:00 CET (Vienna-time) to celebrate the Winners of the KM Awards 2025!
Programme:
- Introduction and welcome by Prof. Dr. Andreas Brandner, ED
- Keynote Prof. Dr. Stefan Güldenberg (Award Winner 2011) on
Knowledge Work 5.0 in the Era of AI - KM Award Ceremony
- Introduction Column of Knowledge
- Sound of Knowledge
- KM Award 2025 – Bruce Boyes
Laudation Sarah Cummings - KM Award 2025 – Inter-American Development Bank
Laudation Ian Thorpe - Closing
To participate, please register here!
KM Award Ceremony
11 December, 2025
17:00-19:00 CET, online
To participate, please register here!
See here the Award-Video 2024
providing a glance on the development of the Award, the Columns of Knowledge, and the Winners since 2009!
The KM Award
About the award
Annually since 2009, the international Knowledge Management Award is bestowed upon an international organization as well as an outstanding personality. Anyone can nominate a person or an international organisation for the Award. After a review, the members of the Presidia of both Knowledge Management Austria and the Knowledge for Development Partnership select the winners.
Recognition
The prize is given in recognition of the winner’s outstanding accomplishments in research, implementation or innovation of successful management methods for knowledge politics and knowledge management. It is also meant to recognize the impact made on the development of a knowledge society in general and more specifically on knowledge creation, transformation, distribution and application.
Criteria
Research, implementation and innovation of successful management methods for knowledge politics and knowledge management
Impact made on the development of a knowledge society: knowledge creation, transformation, distribution and application
Columns of Knowledge
The physical instantiation of the Knowledge Management Award
The metallic sculpture created by the Austrian artist Prof. Helmut Margreiter, named the Column of Knowledge. The object depicts the dialogue between established and well-proven knowledge, represented by a glossy, cylindrical pillar, and the innovative pursuit of the unknown, the undefined and fragile, represented by a rough counterpart in a triangular shape. In this respect, knowledge is understood as an intangible, fluid condition between these two worlds where the appreciation of the well-known is combined with a yearning for novelty. The KM Award sculpture was presented for the first time in public in its tall version at the UNESCO World Day for Cultural Diversity on 21 May 2008.
Award Winners
The Winners of the Knowledge Management Award since 2009:
2009: Usula Schneider (Individual)
2010: Charles Savage (Individual)
2010: IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency (International Organisation)
2011: Stefan Güldenberg (Individual)
2012: UNDP United Nations Development Programme (International Organisation)
2012: Nico Stehr (Individual)
2014: Klaus North (Individual)
2015: Angelika Mittelmann (Individual)
2015: UNESCO United Nations Education Science Culture Organization
2016: Dr. Ibrahim Al Marri (Individual)
2016: km4dev.org (International Organisation)
2017: Leif Edvinsson (Individual)
2017: JIU Joint Inspection Unit of the United Nations System
2018: Ali Asghar Pourmand (Individual)
2018: International Fund for Agricultural Development (International Organisation)
2019: Charles Dhewa (Individual)
2019: ILRI International Lifestock Research Institute (International Organisation)
2020: Kimiz Dalkir (Individual)
2020: UNICEF United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (International Organisation)
2021: Eric Tsui (Individual)
2021: Green Climate Fund (International Organisation)
2022: Vincent Ribière (Individual)
2022: Asian Development Bank (International Organisation)
2023: Stacey Young (Individual)
2023: World Food Programme (International Organisation)
2024: Benjamin Abugri (Individual)
2024: World Bank Group (International Organisation)
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