The Axel Springer Award is an annual award given to outstanding personalities who are "exceptionally innovative, create new markets and change markets, shape culture, and face up to their social responsibility". The award, which does not involve a cash prize, was presented for the first time in 2016. The award winners are selected by the Executive Board of the publishing house Axel Springer SE.
Laureates
2016: Mark Zuckerberg 2017: Timothy Berners-Lee 2018: Jeff Bezos 2019: Shoshana Zuboff 2020: Elon Musk 2021: Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci 2022: Volodymyr Zelenskyy 2023: Satya Nadella 2025: Sam Altman 2026: Peter Thiel
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