2012 Award

The FIRST Award for Responsible Capitalism 2012 was presented to Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer of Unilever.

The FIRST Lord Dahrendorf Special Award for the SME Sector was presented to Anthony Pile, Founder and Chairman of Blue Skies and the FIRST Diamond Jubilee Award was presented to HRH The Prince of Wales, President of The Prince’s Trust. The awards were presented by video link by Rt Hon William Hague MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, at a ceremony at Marlborough House.

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: HE Abhimanu Kundasamy, High Commissioner, Mauritius High Commission, HE Lt Col Bizwayo Nkunika, High Commissioner, Zambian High Commission, HE Miguel Fernandes Neto, Ambassador, Embassy of Angola and Gonchig Ganbold, Counsellor, Embassy of Mongolia

: HE Ruth Rouse, High Commissioner, Grenada High Commission, HE Aloun Ndombet-Assamba, High Commissioner, Jamaican High Commission and Haifa Fahoum Al Kaylani, Chairperson, Arab International Women’s Forum

: HE Bernard Emié, Ambassador, Embassy of France, Rupert Goodman DL, Chairman and Founder of FIRST and Rt Hon Lord Woolf, Chairman, FIRST Award Judging Panel

: Major Christopher Goodwin TD DL and HE Amar Abba, Ambassador, Embassy of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria

: HE Joseph Zammit Tabona, High Commissioner, Malta High Commisssion and Scott Freidheim, Chief Executive Officer (Europe), Investcorp International

: HE Emil Brix, Ambassador, Embassy of Austria

: HE Ana Albán Mora, Ambassador, Embassy of Ecuador and HE Julio Moreira Moran, Ambassador, Embassy of the Republic of Uruguay

: HE Bernard Emié, Ambassador, Embassy of France and HE Dr Ünal Çeviköz, Ambassador, Embassy of Turkey

: Lord Jones of Birmingham and Mr Jonathan Hellewell, Assistant Private Secretary to HRH the Prince of Wales

: HE Karine Kazinian, Ambassador, Embassy of Armenia, HE János Csak, Ambassador, Embassy of the Republic of Hungary, and HE João de Vallera, Ambassador, Embassy of Portugal

: Lord Cormack DL FSA, Consultant, Public Affairs, FIRST, addresses the guests

: Rt Hon William Hague MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, sends a special message to the guests

: Martina Milburn, Chief Executive Officer, The Prince’s Trust, receives the Special Jubilee Award on behalf of HRH The Prince of Wales, from Lord Woolf, Chairman, FIRST Award Judging Panel

: Martina Milburn, Chief Executive of The Prince’s Trust

: Anthony Pile, Chairman and Founder of Blue Skies, receives the FIRST Special Award for the SME Sector from Rt Hon Lord Woolf, Chairman, FIRST Award Judging Panel

: Lord Cormack DL FSA, Martina Milburn, Chief Executive Officer, The Prince’s Trust, Rt Hon Lord Woolf, Chairman, FIRST Award Judging Panel, Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever, Anthony Pile, Chairman and Founder of Blue Skies, and Rupert Goodman DL, Chairman and Founder of FIRST

: Sir George Mallinckrodt KBE KCSG, President, Schroders Plc, and Rupert Goodman DL, Chairman and Founder, FIRST

: Peter Mathews CMG, Managing Director, Black Country Metals and Sir Kevin Tebbit KCB CMG, Chairman, Selex Systems Integration

: Rupert Goodman DL, Chairman and Founder, FIRST and Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever

: HE Bernard Emié, Ambassador, Embassy of France, Rt Hon Lord Howe of Aberavon CH QC, Judge, FIRST Award Panel and Chief Emeka Anyaoku GCVO TC CFR, Judge, FIRST Award Panel

: HE Dr Ünal Çeviköz, Ambassador, Embassy of Turkey and Lord Plant of Highfield, Judge, FIRST Award Panel

: Hon Philip Lader, Senior Advisor, Investment Banking Division, Morgan Stanley and HE Bernard Emié, Ambassador, Embassy of France

: Rupert Goodman DL, Hon Philip Lader, Senior Advisor, Investment Banking Division, Morgan Stanley, Philippa Foster Back OBE, Anthony Pile, Chairman and Founder, Blue Skies, Chief Emeka Anyaoku GCVO TC CFR, Rt Hon Lord Woolf, Martina Milburn, Chief Executive Officer, The Prince’s Trust, Lord Plant of Highfield, Rt Hon Lord Howe of Aberavon CH QC, Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever, and Lord Cormack DL FSA

: Rupert Goodman DL, Hon Philip Lader, Senior Advisor, Investment Banking Division, Morgan Stanley, Philippa Foster Back OBE, Anthony Pile, Chairman and Founder, Blue Skies, Chief Emeka Anyaoku GCVO TC CFR, Rt Hon Lord Woolf, Martina Milburn, Chief Executive Officer, The Prince’s Trust, Lord Plant of Highfield, Rt Hon Lord Howe of Aberavon CH QC, Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever, and Lord Cormack DL FSA

: HE Enrique Manalo, Ambassador, Embassy of the Philippines and HE Amar Abba, Ambassador, Embassy of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria

: HRH The Prince of Wales sends a special message to the guests, and Rupert Goodman DL, Chairman and Founder of FIRST

: Martina Milburn, Chief Executive of The Prince’s Trust

: Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever, receives the FIRST Award for Responsible Capitalism

: Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever, addresses the guests

: Anthony Pile, Chairman and Founder of Blue Skies, receives the FIRST Special Award for the SME Sector from Rt Hon Lord Woolf, Chairman, FIRST Award Judging Panel

: Anthony Pile, Chairman and Founder of Blue Skies

: Lord Cormack DL FSA, Martina Milburn, Chief Executive Officer, The Prince’s Trust, Rt Hon Lord Woolf of Barnes, Chairman, FIRST Award Judging Panel, Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever, Anthony Pile, Chairman and Founder of Blue Skies, and Rupert Goodman DL, Chairman and Founder of FIRST

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