The FIRST International Award for Responsible Capitalism 2007 was awarded to Howard Schultz, Chairman, Starbucks Coffee Company
A special Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Thomas Bata, Chairman, Bata Shoe Foundation
The Awards were presented by Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer at a ceremony and reception held at Marlborough House, London
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- Sir Paul Judge and Cliff Burrows, President of Starbucks Coffee Company
- Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons and Rupert Goodman, Chairman of FIRST
- Willie Nagel CMG, Chairman of Punchline, Peter Mathews CMG, Managing Director of Black Country Metals Ltd and HE Edgardo Espiritu, Ambassador of the Philippines
- HE Khaled Al Duwaisan GCVO, Ambassador of Kuwait and John Micklethwait, Editor in Chief of The Economist
- Rt Hon Lord Woolf of Barnes, Sir Patrick Cormack FSA MP, Rupert Goodman, Chairman of FIRST and Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP
- Rt Hon Lord Howe of Aberavon CH QC and Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP
- Rt Hon Lord Woolf of Barnes, Chairman of the Judging Panel for FIRST
- Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP and Howard Schultz, Chairman, Starbucks Coffee Company
- Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP and Thomas Bata, Chairman, Bata Shoe Foundation
- HE Jan Winkler, Ambassador, Embassy of the Czech Republic and Rt Hon Lord Howe of Aberavon CH QC of the FIRST Judging panel