Hernando de Soto Polar - Prizes

Prizes

Among the prizes he has received are:

• The Freedom Prize (Switzerland)
• The Fisher Prize (United Kingdom)
• 2002
  • the Goldwater Award (USA)
  • Adam Smith Award from the Association of Private Enterprise Education (USA)
  • The CARE Canada Award for Outstanding Development Thinking (Canada)
• 2003
  • received the Downey Fellowship at Yale University
  • the Democracy Hall of Fame International Award from the National Graduate University (USA)
• 2004
  • the Templeton Freedom Prize (USA)
  • the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty (USA)
  • the Royal Decoration of the Most Admirable Order of the Direkgunabhorn, 5th Class, (Thailand)
• 2005
  • an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Buckingham (United Kingdom),
  • The Americas Award (USA)
  • named the Most Outstanding of 2004 for Economic Development at Home and Abroad by the Peruvian National Assembly of Rectors
  • received the Prize of Deutsche Stiftung Eigentum for exceptional contributions to the theory of property rights
  • the 2004 IPAE Award by the Peruvian Institute of Business Administration
  • the Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award 2005 (USA) in tribute to his outstanding accomplishments
  • the BearingPoint, Forbes Magazine's seventh Compass Award for Strategic Direction
  • was named as a "Fellow of the Class of 1930" by Dartmouth College.
• 2006
  • the 2006 Bradley Prize for outstanding achievement by the Bradley Foundation.
  • the 2006 Innovation Award (Social and Economic Innovation) from The Economist magazine (December 2, 2006) for the promotion of property rights and economic development.
• 2007
  • The Poder BCG Business Awards 2007, granted by Poder Magazine and the Boston Consulting Group, for the "Best Anti-Poverty Initiative"
  • the anthology Die Zwölf Wichtigsten Ökonomen der Welt (The World's Twelve Most Influential Economists, 2007), included a profile of de Soto among a list that begins with Adam Smith and includes such recent winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics as Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen.
  • the 2007 Humanitarian Award in recognition of his work to help poor people participate in the market economy.
• 2009
  • Honorary Patron of the University Philosophical Society of Trinity College (Ireland) for having excelled in public life and made a worthy contribution to society.
  • the inaugural Hernando de Soto Award for Democracy awarded by the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) in recognition of his extraordinary achievements in furthering economic freedom in Peru and throughout the developing world.
• 2010
  • the Hayek Medal for his theories on liberal development policy ("market economy from below") and for the appropriate implementation of his concepts by two Peruvian presidents.
  • the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Cabinet (Council of Ministers) in recognition of his contribution toward the betterment of humankind and having worked for the future of the earth through his commitment.