Award Profile
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Felix Agbor Nkongho (Balla)
Tags Share Felix Agbor Nkongho is a Cameroonian lawyer, human rights defender, and leading advocate for human rights of Cameroonians in the conflict stricken Anglophone region. As the director of the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa (CHRDA), Nkongho spearheads the promotion of democracy, good governance, access to justice and rule of law.…
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Maximilienne C. Ngo Mbe
Tags Share Maximilienne C. Ngo Mbe is a Cameroonian human rights defender and leader of the Central African Human Rights Defenders Network (REDHAC). Since 2010, she has been leading REDHAC in its efforts to promote civic space and fundamental freedoms throughout Central Africa through investigations of human rights abuses, advocacy before regional human rights bodies,…
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Annette Gordon-Reed
Tags Share Gordon-Reed won sixteen book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 and the National Book Award in 2008, for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton, 2008). In addition to articles and reviews, her other works include Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (UVA Press, 1997). Vernon…
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Frank Baker
Tags Share Frank Baker is a co-founder and managing partner of Siris Capital Group LLC, the predecessor fund of which was formed in 2006. Siris is a middle market private equity firm focused on deep value, control equity investments around special situations in the telecom, technology and technology-enabled business service sectors. Prior to forming Siris,…
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Brian Moynihan
Tags Share As Chair of the Board and CEO at Bank of America, Brian Moynihan leads a team of more than 200,000 employees dedicated to the financial wellbeing of individuals, companies, and institutional investors across the United States and around the world. In June of 2020, under his leadership, Bank of America made a $1…
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