World Mayor 2025

The shortlist of nominees for the 2025 World Mayor Prize and Awards has now been published. We invite your comments and votes.

The 2025 World Mayor Nominees.

The 2025 World Mayor Project is dedicated to Mayors fighting poverty, particularly poverty among women and children. Poverty is an affront to human rights and dignity. It prevents hundreds of millions of people from realising their full potential. Poverty is about a lack of food, housing, health care, education, prospects, safety, resources, dignity, and, indeed, love. (Definitions of poverty)

Most recent winners of the World Mayor Prize with the World Mayor sculpture: Elke Kahr, Mayor of Graz, Austria (2023); Philippe Rio, Mayor of Grigny, France (2021); Ahmed Aboutaleb, Mayor of Rotterdam, Netherlands (2021); Valeria Mancinelli, Mayor of Ancona, Italy (2018) (Full history from 2004 to 2023)

You choose the winners of the 2025 World Mayor Prize and Awards

Please support the Mayor from the list of candidates, who believes that poverty has no place in a decent society. Please describe the actions he or she has taken to help and support the poorest and most vulnerable members of their community. The measures can be small-scale or have implications beyond the mayors’ towns and cities.

The late US President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter said, “The measure of a society is found in how it treats its weakest and most helpless citizens.”

The recipients of the World Mayor Prize and Awards will be chosen based on the persuasiveness of your arguments.

By participating in the 2025 World Mayor Project, you contribute, however small, to reducing poverty. Thank you.

The list of World Mayor finalists will be published in the autumn of this year. The winners of the World Mayor Prize and Awards will be announced towards the end of the year.

The 2025 World Mayor list of nominees

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About World Mayor 2025

For the 2025 World Mayor Prize and Honours, the World Mayor Project is seeking mayors from large cities, towns and even villages who have put in place measures in support of the least well-off in their communities. The initiatives may be small-scale or have the potential to be applied by other towns and cities. We would also like to hear from mayors who cooperate on a national and international level with other cities and/or aid organisations, for example.

Since the inception of World Mayor 2004, the Project has featured many mayors who have made poverty relief one of their main aims in office. We now wish to hear from many more. Please nominate a mayor who has made fighting poverty a priority.

The World Mayor Project, organised by the philanthropic City Mayors Foundation since 2004, has no connection with any city or organisation and is run on strictly non-commercial lines. Sponsorships, donations or any other kind of revenue are not sought and will be rejected if offered.

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