Euromoney Finance Minister of the Year

Every year, Euromoney magazine awards a Finance Minister of the Year award.^[1] Past recipients are listed below.

1981 Turgut Özal of Turkey
1982 Hon Sui Sen of Singapore
1983 Jesús Silva Herzog of Mexico
1984 Paul Keating of Australia^[2]
1985 Roger Douglas of New Zealand^[3]
1986 James Baker of the United States of America^[4]
1987 Edouard Balladur of France^[5]
1988 Nigel Lawson of the United Kingdom
1989 J. B. Sumarlin of Indonesia
1990 Philippe Maystadt of Belgium^[6]
1991 Carlos Solchaga of Spain
1992 Domingo Cavallo of Argentina
1993 Manmohan Singh of India^[7]
1994 Iiro Viinanen of Finland
1995 Roberto de Ocampo of the Philippines^[8]
1996 Robert Rubin of the United States of America^[9]
1997 Anatoly Chubais of Russia^[10]
1998 Leszek Balcerowicz of Poland^[11]
1999 José Ángel Gurría of Mexico^[12]
2000 Brigita Schmögnerovà of Slovakia^[13]
2001 Shaukat Aziz of Pakistan^[14]
2002 Milen Veltchev of Bulgaria^[15]
2003 Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf of Saudi Arabia^[16]
2004 Ivan Miklos of Slovakia^[17]
2005 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria^[18]
2006 Sri Mulyani Indrawati of Indonesia^[19]
2007 Mlađan Dinkić of Serbia^[20]
2008 Xie Xuren of China^[21]
2009 Jim Flaherty of Canada^[22]
2010 Alexei Kudrin of Russia^[23]
2011 Wayne Swan of Australia^[24]
2012 Cesar Purisima of Philippines^[25]
2013 Tharman Shanmugaratnam of Singapore

This award was nicknamed "World's Greatest Treasurer"^[26] after Keating won in 1984.

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