Euromoney Finance Minister of the Year

Every year, Euromoney magazine awarded a Finance Minister of the Year award.[1] Past recipients are listed below.[2]

• 1981 Turgut Özal of Turkey
• 1982 Hon Sui Sen of Singapore
• 1983 Jesús Silva Herzog of Mexico
• 1984 Paul Keating of Australia[3]
• 1985 Roger Douglas of New Zealand[4]
• 1986 James Baker of the United States of America[5]
• 1987 Edouard Balladur of France[6]
• 1988 Nigel Lawson of the United Kingdom
• 1989 J. B. Sumarlin of Indonesia
• 1990 Philippe Maystadt of Belgium[7]
• 1991 Carlos Solchaga of Spain
• 1992 Domingo Cavallo of Argentina
• 1993 Manmohan Singh of India[8]
• 1994 Iiro Viinanen of Finland
• 1995 Roberto de Ocampo of the Philippines[9]
• 1996 Robert Rubin of the United States of America[10]
• 1997 Anatoly Chubais of Russia[11]
• 1998 Leszek Balcerowicz of Poland[12]
• 1999 José Ángel Gurría of Mexico[13]
• 2000 Brigita Schmögnerová of Slovakia[14]
• 2001 Shaukat Aziz of Pakistan[15]
• 2002 Milen Veltchev of Bulgaria[16]
• 2003 Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf of Saudi Arabia[17]
• 2004 Ivan Miklos of Slovakia[18]
• 2005 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria[19]
• 2006 Sri Mulyani Indrawati of Indonesia[20]
• 2007 Mlađan Dinkić of Serbia[21]
• 2008 Xie Xuren of China[22]
• 2009 Jim Flaherty of Canada[23]
• 2010 Alexei Kudrin of Russia[24]
• 2011 Wayne Swan of Australia[25]
• 2012 Cesar Purisima of Philippines[26]
• 2013 Tharman Shanmugaratnam of Singapore
• 2014 Luis Videgaray Caso of Mexico[27]
• 2015 Mauricio Cárdenas Santamaría of Colombia[28]
• 2016 Alfonso Prat-Gay of Argentina[29]

This award was colloquially nicknamed "World's Greatest Treasurer" in Australia after Paul Keating won in 1984.[30]