King’s Distinguished Alumni Awards 2024
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- King’s Future Alumni Award: Recognizes a current student who demonstrates outstanding potential through extracurriculars, such as founding a start-up or leading a student organization for a meaningful cause.
- King’s in Service Award: Honors alumni making a significant social impact through volunteerism or charity work, perhaps by serving on charitable boards or managing projects directly on the ground.
- King’s Local Communities Impact Award: Aligned with King’s Strategic Vision 2029, this award is for alumni who have created a positive impact within one of King’s home boroughs—Lambeth, Southwark, or Westminster—through work with local government, community groups, or initiatives benefitting London.
- King’s International Impact Award: This award celebrates alumni making global contributions, aligning with King’s goal to be an international community. Recipients are those working on worldwide challenges or within global communities.
- King’s Business and Entrepreneurial Award: Recognizes a graduate displaying exceptional business skills and entrepreneurial spirit, addressing key social challenges with innovative and sustainable solutions.
- King’s Arts and Culture Award: Honors alumni with achievements in arts and culture, showcasing creativity, whether at an arts organization or through impactful projects like an album, exhibition, or podcast.
- King’s STEM Award: Celebrates alumni leading advancements in science, technology, engineering, arts, or mathematics, contributing through research, education, or industry impact.
- King’s Global Health Award: For alumni excelling in healthcare, public health initiatives, or groundbreaking research within medical fields.
- King’s Emerging Leader Award: Given to recent graduates who demonstrate rapid career progression and influence, recognized as rising stars in their respective fields.
- King’s Changemaker Award: Recognizes alumni using their expertise to challenge norms, influence policy, promote sustainability, or advocate for inclusion and diversity.
- Alumna of the Year: Dr. Lama Al Sulaiman (PhD Nutrition, 2004)
- Helen Hudson Award: Professor Stephen Challacombe (Guy’s, Dentistry, 1968)
2023:
- Alumnus of the Year, Jasvir Singh (History, 2001)
- Helen Hudson Award, Diana Garnham (MA War Studies, 1979)
- Alumna of the Year, I. Stephanie Boyce (LLM Public Law & Global Governance, 2010)
- Helen Hudson Award, Rita Kakati-Shah (Mathematics & Management, 2001)
- Alumna of the Year, Dina Asher-Smith FKC (History, 2017)
- Helen Hudson Award, Sue Searle AKC (Chemistry, 1972)
- Alumnus of the Year, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (LLM Law, 1992)
- Helen Hudson Award Winner, David Walsh (Human Environmental Sciences, 1979)
- Alumna of the Year, Farah Storr (French with English, 2001)
- Helen Hudson Award Winner, Daniel Peltz OBE FKC (History, 1982)
- Alumnus of the Year, Keir Starmer KCB (Law, 1996)
- Helen Hudson Award Winner, Rola Gordon FKC (MSc Health Psychology, 2013)
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