Leadership, Inclusion, Decision: Ardern Receives Prestigious Gleitsman Award

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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is being honored today with the 2020 Gleitsman International Activist Award, joining the illustrious company of previous winners, including Malala Yousafzai and Nelson Mandela.

The Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership Award was announced last month and will be received by Ardern today via a zoom lecture.

The award honors Ardern’s leadership, decisive action, and commitment to inclusive and reformist policies.

It comes with $ 150,000 ($ 212,000) that Ardern has earmarked for a scholarship for a New Zealand student at Harvard Kennedy School.

Public Leadership Center director and public leadership practice professor Wendy R Sherman said Ardern had exercised a “firm and swift hand, an open mind, and a keen reflection on her entire community in meeting the challenges of terror, earthquakes and now the Covid-19 “. .

“We are delighted that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern accepts this year’s award.

“The Prime Minister reminds us all that strength, compassion, science, clear communications, humility and activism go hand in hand to generate positive results.”

A spokesman for the prime minister said earlier: “His usual practice is to decline awards, but in this case we were able to turn it into a scholarship for a New Zealander to go to Harvard.”