BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (Spanish: Premios Fundación BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento) are an international award programme recognizing significant contributions in the areas of scientific research and cultural creation. The categories that make up the Frontiers of Knowledge Awards respond to the knowledge map of the present age. As well as the fundamental knowledge that is at their core, they address developments in information and communication technologies, and interactions between biology and medicine, ecology and conservation biology, climate change, economics, humanities and social sciences, and, finally, contemporary musical creation and performance. Specific categories are reserved for developing knowledge fields of critical relevance to confront central challenges of the 21st century, as in the case of the two environmental awards.

The awards were established in 2008, with the first set of winners receiving their prizes in 2009. The BBVA Foundation – belonging to financial group BBVA – is partnered in the scheme by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the country's premier public research organization.

Categories

There are eight award categories: basic science, biology and biomedicine, climate change, ecology and conservation biology, information and communications technologies, economics, finance and management, music and opera, humanities and social sciences (a new category in the 11th edition). Previously, in the first 10 editions, there was a category in development cooperation.

Juries

Eight juries, one for each category, analyze the nominations put forward by international academic and research institutions.^[1][2] To reach their decision, the juries meet during January and February in the Marqués de Salamanca Palace, Madrid headquarters of the BBVA Foundation. The day after the jury's decision, the name of the winners(s) and the achievements that earned them the award are revealed at an announcement event in the same location.

Ceremony

The awards are presented in June each year at a ceremony held, from the 11th edition, in the Euskalduna Palace at Bilbao, in the Basque Country.^[3][4][5][6]

BBVA Foundation

The BBVA Foundation engages in the promotion of research, advanced training and the transmission of knowledge to society, focusing on the emerging issues of the 21st century in five areas: Environment, Biomedicine and Health, Economy and Society, Basic Sciences and Technology, and Arts and Humanities. The BBVA Foundation designs, develops and finances research projects in these areas; facilitates advanced specialist training through grants, courses, seminars and workshops; organizes award schemes for researchers and professionals whose work has contributed significantly to the advancement of knowledge; and communicates and disseminates such new knowledge through publications, databases, lecture series, debates, exhibitions and audiovisual and electronic media.^[7][8]

Prizes

Each BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge laureate receives a commemorative artwork, a diploma and a cash prize of 400,000 euros per category. Awards may not be granted posthumously, and when an award is shared, its monetary amount is divided equally among the recipients.

The commemorative artwork is created by Madrid sculptor Blanca Muñoz, B.A. in Fine Arts from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Holder of scholarships at Calcografia Nazionale (1989), awarded by the Italian Government, at the Spanish Royal Academy in Rome (1990), and in Mexico City (1992), awarded by the Mexican Department of Foreign Affairs, her numerous distinctions include the 1999 National Print Prize.

Laureates

Year	Laureate	Nationality	Category	Nobel Prize
2008	Ignacio Cirac Peter Zoller	Spain   Austria	Basic Sciences
2008	Joan Massagué	Spain	Biomedicine
2008	Thomas Lovejoy William Laurance	United States   United States	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2008	Jacob Ziv	Israel	Information and Communication Technologies
2008	Jean Tirole	France	Economics, Finance and Management	Economic Sciences 2014
2008	Steven Holl	United States	Arts
2008	Wallace S. Broecker	United States	Climate Change
2008	Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab	United States	Development Cooperation
2009	Richard Zare Michael Fisher	United States   United Kingdom	Basic Sciences
2009	Robert Lefkowitz	United States	Biomedicine	Chemistry 2012
2009	Peter B. Reich	United States	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2009	Thomas Kailath	United States	Information and Communication Technologies
2009	Andreu Mas-Colell Hugo F. Sonnenschein	Spain   United States	Economics, Finance and Management
2009	Cristóbal Halffter	Spain	Contemporary Music
2009	Klaus Hasselmann	Germany	Climate Change	Physics 2021
2009	Development Research Institute	United States	Development Cooperation
2010	Gabor A. Somorjai	United States   Hungary	Basic Sciences
2010	Shinya Yamanaka	Japan	Biomedicine	Physiology 2012
2010	Edward Osborne Wilson	United States	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2010	Donald Knuth	United States	Information and Communication Technologies
2010	Lars Peter Hansen	United States	Economics, Finance and Management	Economic Sciences 2013
2010	Helmut Lachenmann	Germany	Contemporary Music
2010	Nicholas Stern	United Kingdom	Climate Change
2010	International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)	Finland	Development Cooperation
2011	Michel Mayor	Switzerland	Basic Sciences	Physics 2019
2011	Didier Queloz	Switzerland	Basic Sciences	Physics 2019
2011	Alexander Varshavsky	United States	Biomedicine
2011	Daniel H. Janzen	United States	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2011	Carver Mead	United States	Information and Communication Technologies
2011	Angus Deaton	United Kingdom	Economics, Finance and Management	Economic Sciences 2015
2011	Salvatore Sciarrino	Italy	Contemporary Music
2011	Isaac Held	United States	Climate Change
2011	Ciro de Quadros	Brazil	Development Cooperation
2012	Ingrid Daubechies^[9]	Belgium	Basic Sciences
2012	David Mumford^[10]	United Kingdom	Basic Sciences
2012	Douglas Coleman^[11]	Canada	Biomedicine
2012	Jeffrey Friedman^[12]	United States	Biomedicine
2012	Jane Lubchenco^[13]	United States	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2012	Lotfi A. Zadeh^[14]	Azerbaijan	Information and Communication Technologies
2012	Paul Milgrom^[15]	United States	Economics, Finance and Management	Economic Sciences 2020
2012	Pierre Boulez^[16]	France	Contemporary Music
2012	Susan Solomon^[17]	United States	Climate Change
2012	DNDi^[18]	Switzerland	Development Cooperation
2013	Maximilian Haider^[19]	Austria	Basic Sciences
2013	Harald Rose^[20]	Germany	Basic Sciences
2013	Knut Urban^[21]	Germany	Basic Sciences
2013	Adrian Bird^[22]	United Kingdom	Biomedicine
2013	Paul R. Ehrlich^[23]	United States	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2013	Marvin Minsky^[24]	United States	Information and Communication Technologies
2013	Elhanan Helpman^[25]	Israel	Economics, Finance and Management
2013	Steve Reich^[26]	United States	Contemporary Music
2013	Christopher Field^[27]	United States	Climate Change
2013	Pratham^[28]	India	Development Cooperation
2014	Stephen Buchwald^[29]	United States	Basic Sciences
2014	Joseph Schlessinger^[30]	United States	Biomedicine
2014	Charles Sawyers^[31]	United States	Biomedicine
2014	Tony Hunter^[32]	United Kingdom	Biomedicine
2014	David Tilman^[33]	United States	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2014	Leonard Kleinrock^[34]	United States	Information and Communication Technologies
2014	Richard Blundell	United Kingdom	Economics, Finance and Management
2014	David Card	Canada	Economics, Finance and Management	Economic Sciences 2021
2014	György Kurtág^[35]	Hungary	Contemporary Music
2014	Richard Alley^[36]	United States	Climate Change
2014	Helen Keller International	United States	Development Cooperation
2015	Stephen Hawking	United Kingdom	Basic Sciences
2015	Viatcheslav Mukhanov	Germany	Basic Sciences
2015	Edward Boyden	United States	Biomedicine
2015	Karl Deisseroth	United States	Biomedicine
2015	Gero Miesenböck	Austria	Biomedicine
2015	Ilkka Hanski	Finland	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2015	Stephen Cook	Canada	Information and Communication Technologies
2015	Robert Wilson	United States	Economics, Finance and Management	Economic Sciences 2020
2015	Georges Aperghis	Greece	Contemporary Music
2015	Veerabhadran Ramanathan	India	Climate Change
2015	Martin Ravallion	Australia	Development Cooperation
2016	David Cox	United Kingdom	Basic Sciences
2016	Bradley Efron	United States	Basic Sciences
2016	Emmanuelle Charpentier	France	Biomedicine	Chemistry 2020
2016	Jennifer Doudna	United States	Biomedicine	Chemistry 2020
2016	Francisco Mojica	Spain	Biomedicine
2016	Gene E. Likens	United States	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2016	Marten Scheffer	Netherlands	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2016	Geoffrey Hinton	United Kingdom	Information and Communication Technologies
2016	Daron Acemoglu	Turkey /   United States	Economics, Finance and Management
2016	Sofia Gubaidulina	Russia	Contemporary Music
2016	James Hansen	United States	Climate Change
2016	Syukuro Manabe	Japan /   United States	Climate Change	Physics 2021
2017	Omar M. Yaghi	Jordan /   United States	Basic Sciences
2017	James P. Allison	United States	Biomedicine	Medicine 2018
2017	Rosemary Grant	United Kingdom	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2017	Peter Grant	United Kingdom	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2017	Shafi Goldwasser	United States	Information and Communication Technologies
2017	Silvio Micali	Italy	Information and Communication Technologies
2017	Ronald Rivest	United States	Information and Communication Technologies
2017	Adi Shamir	Israel	Information and Communication Technologies
2017	Robert Porter	Canada	Economics Finance and Management
2017	Ariel Pakes	Canada /   United States	Economics Finance and Management
2017	Timothy Bresnahan	United States	Economics Finance and Management
2017	Kaija Saariaho	Finland	Contemporary Music
2017	William Nordhaus	United States	Climate Change	Economic Sciences 2018
2017	Nubia Muñoz	Colombia	Development Cooperation
2018	Charles L. Kane^[37]	United States	Basic Sciences
2018	Eugene J. Mele^[38]	United States	Basic Sciences
2018	Jeffrey I. Gordon^[39]^[40]	United States	Biology and Biomedicine
2018	Anny Cazenave^[41]	France	Climate Change
2018	John A. Church^[42]	Australia	Climate Change
2018	Jonathan M. Gregory^[43]	United Kingdom	Climate Change
2018	Gretchen Daily^[44]	United States	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2018	Georgina Mace^[45]	United Kingdom	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2018	Ivan Sutherland^[46]	United States	Information and Communication Technologies
2018	Claudia Goldin^[47]	United States	Economics, Finance and Management
2018	Noam Chomsky^[48]	United States	Humanities and Social Sciences
2018	John Adams^[49]	United States	Music and Opera
2019	Kerry A. Emanuel	United States	Climate Change
2019	Daniel Pauly	Canada	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2019	Terence Hughes	Ireland /   Australia	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2019	Carlos M. Duarte	Spain	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2019	Michael N. Hall	United States /   Switzerland	Biology and Biomedicine
2019	David M. Sabatini	United States	Biology and Biomedicine
2019	Isabelle Guyon	France	Information and Communications Technology
2019	Bernhard Schölkopf	Germany	Information and Communications Technology
2019	Vladimir Vapnik	Russia /   United States	Information and Communications Technology
2019	Charles H. Bennett	United States	Basic Sciences
2019	Gilles Brassard	Canada	Basic Sciences
2019	Peter Shor	United States	Basic Sciences
2019	Philippe Aghion	France	Economics, Finance and Management
2019	Peter W. Howitt	Canada	Economics, Finance and Management
2019	Arvo Pärt	Estonia	Music and Opera
2019	Susan Fiske	United States	Social Cognition
2019	Shelley E. Taylor	United States	Social Cognition
2020	Neil Adger^[50]	United Kingdom	Climate Change
2020	Ian Burton	United Kingdom	Climate Change
2020	Karen O'Brien	United States	Climate Change
2020	David Julius	United States	Biology and Biomedicine	Medicine 2021
2020	Ardem Patapoutian	Lebanon /   United States	Biology and Biomedicine	Medicine 2021
2020	Sandra Díaz	Argentina	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2020	Sandra Lavorel	France	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2020	Mark Westoby	Australia	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2020	John L. Hennessy	United States	Information and Communications Technology
2020	David A. Patterson	United States	Information and Communications Technology
2020	Paul Alivisatos	United States	Basic Sciences
2020	Michael Grätzel	Switzerland	Basic Sciences
2020	Ben Bernanke	United States	Economics, Finance and Management
2020	Mark Gertler	United States	Economics, Finance and Management
2020	Nobuhiro Kiyotaki	Japan	Economics, Finance and Management
2020	John Moore	United Kingdom	Economics, Finance and Management
2020	Gerald Holton	Austria /   United States	Humanities and Social Sciences
2020	Peter Eötvös	Hungary	Music and Opera
2021	Lonnie G. Thompson	United States	Climate Change
2021	Ellen Mosley-Thompson	United States	Climate Change
2021	Katalin Kariko	Hungary	Biology and Biomedicine
2021	Drew Weissman	United States	Biology and Biomedicine
2021	Robert S. Langer	United States	Biology and Biomedicine
2021	Lenore Fahrig	Canada	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2021	Simon Levin	United States	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2021	Steward Pickett	United States	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2021	Judea Pearl	Israel /   United States	Information and Communications Technology
2021	Charles Fefferman	United States	Basic Sciences
2021	Jean-François Le Gall	France	Basic Sciences
2021	Matthew O. Jackson	United States	Economics, Finance and Management
2021	Mark Granovetter^[51]	United States	Humanities and Social Sciences
2021	Philip Glass	United States	Music and Opera
2022	Ellen Thomas	United States	Climate Change
2022	James Zachos	United States	Climate Change
2022	David Baker	United States	Biology and Biomedicine
2022	Demis Hassabis	United Kingdom	Biology and Biomedicine
2022	John Jumper	United States	Biology and Biomedicine
2022	Susan Alberts	United States	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2022	Jeanne Altmann	United States	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2022	Marlene Zuk	United States	Ecology and Conservation Biology
2022	Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli	Italy /   United States	Information and Communications Technology
2022	Paul Corkum	Canada	Basic Sciences
2022	Ferenc Krausz	Hungary /   Germany	Basic Sciences
2022	Anne L’Huillier	France /   Sweden	Basic Sciences
2022	Timothy J. Besley	United Kingdom	Economics, Finance and Management
2022	Torsten Persson	Sweden	Economics, Finance and Management
2022	Guido Tabellini	Italy	Economics, Finance and Management
2022	Steven Pinker	Canada	Humanities and Social Sciences
2022	Peter Singer	Australia	Humanities and Social Sciences
2022	Thomas Adès	United Kingdom	Music and Opera

Laureates per country

Below is a chart of all laureates per country (updated to 2023 laureates). Some laureates are counted more than once if have multiple citizenship.

Country	Number of laureates
United States	102
United Kingdom	19
France	9
Canada	9
Germany	7
Hungary	5
Russia	3
Italy	3
Israel	3
Japan	2
Argentina
Netherlands
Sweden	2
Austria	4
Belgium
Uruguay

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39. Laureates 2018
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51. "The Frontiers Award goes to Mark Granovetter for discovering the importance of an extended network of "acquaintances" in economic and social life". 6 April 2022.

External links

• BBVA Foundation