Bianca Jagger

Bianca Jagger is a prominent international human rights and climate change advocate. She is Founder and Chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, a Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador, Member of the Executive Director’s Leadership Council of Amnesty International USA and Trustee of the Amazon Charitable Trust.

For approximately 30 years, Bianca Jagger has campaigned for human rights, peace, social justice and environmental protection throughout the world.

For her work in these areas, Jagger has been the recipient of many prestigious international awards, not least of which is the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “alternative Nobel prize”. Others include the United Nations Earth Day International Award, the Amnesty International USA Media Spotlight Award for Leadership and the World Citizenship Award from The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. She has also received The World Achievement Award from Mikhail Gorbachev.

She has also been awarded two doctorates, honoris causa: the first by Stonehill College, Massachusetts, and the second by Simmons College, Boston.