Former Prime Minister, Dame Jacinda Ardern will be receiving a global leadership award by the United Nations Foundation.
The annual awards, We The Peoples, recognise “extraordinary individuals and organisations whose work embodies the values and purposes of the UN”.
Aunty Jacinda will be given the champion for global change award.
The organisation said it recognised her trailblazing and empathetic leadership, her commitment to championing the rights of women, combatting climate change and fostering unity and peace.
Other recipients of the champion for global change award included UN deputy secretary-general Amina J. Mohammed, Barbados prime minister Mia Amor Mottley, and former World Trade Organisation director general Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
Other recipients at the awards include TIME, poet and activist Amanda Gorman, singer songwriter Angélique Kidjo and UN emergency first responders.
Since calling it a day as Prime Minister, Ardern has become a trustee of Prince Williams Earthshot prize, working for Harvard University in the United States and started writing a book on leadership.
The awards are to be presented in New York on Friday.
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