World Mayor 2025
Mayors fighting Poverty

The 2025 World Mayor Project will be managed from several locations. For operational and security reasons, nominating mayors for the 2025 Word Mayor Prize and Awards will be moved to and conducted on our secure ‘Women Mayors’ platform. The World Mayor Project is, of course, open to both men and women.

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World Mayor Prize winners
The most recent winners of the World Mayor Prize: Elke Kahr, Mayor of Graz, Austria (2023); Philippe Rio, Mayor of Grigny, France (2021); Ahmed Aboutaleb, Mayor of Rotterdam, Netherlands (2021); Valeria Mancinelli, Mayor of Ancona, Italy (2018) (Full history from 2004 to 2023)

March 2025: The 2025 World Mayor Prize is dedicated to Mayors fighting poverty, particularly poverty among women and children. Poverty is an affront to humanity and human rights. It prevents hundreds of millions of people from realising their full potential. Poverty is about a lack of food, housing, health care, education, prospects, safety, resources, dignity, and, indeed, love.

For the 2025 World Mayor Prize and Awards, the World Mayor Project is seeking mayors from large cities, towns and even villages who have put in place measures in support of the least well-off in their communities. The initiatives may be small-scale or have the potential to be applied by other towns and cities. We would also like to learn about mayors and their cities who co-operate nationally and internationally and engage with charitable organisations.

Since the inception of World Mayor 2004, the Project has featured many mayors who have made poverty relief one of their main aims in office. We now wish to hear from many more. Please nominate a mayor who has made fighting poverty a priority.

Please nominate your candidate for the World Mayor Prize or write to us with any questions.

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 ABOUT WORLD MAYOR
The World Mayor Project was conceived in 2004 by the City Mayors Foundation to raise the profile of mayors worldwide and honour those who have contributed exceptionally to local and urban affairs. Mayors must carry out their duties selflessly and beyond reproach. The Project has no association with any city or organisation and is run on philanthropic lines. Any kind of revenue is NOT sought and will be rejected if offered. DETAILS

Winners of the World Mayor Prize since 2004: Edi Rama, Tirana (2004); Dora Bakoyannis, Athens (2005); John So, Melbourne (2006); Helen Zille, Cape Town (2008); Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico City (2010); Iñaki Azkuna, Bilbao (2012); Naheed Nenshi, Calgary (2014); Bart Somers, Mechelen (2016); Valeria Mancinelli, Ancona (2018); Ahmed Aboutaleb, Rotterdam (2021); Philippe Rio, Grigny (2021); Elke Kahr, Graz (2023) DETAILS