Every year, Euromoney magazine awards a Finance Minister of the Year award. Past recipients are listed below.
1981 Turgut Özal of Turkey1982 Hon Sui Sen of Singapore1983 Jesús Silva Herzog of Mexico1984 Paul Keating of Australia1985 Roger Douglas of New Zealand1986 James Baker of the United States of America1987 Edouard Balladur of France1988 Nigel Lawson of the United Kingdom1989 J. B. Sumarlin of Indonesia1990 Philippe Maystadt of Belgium1991 Carlos Solchaga of Spain1992 Domingo Cavallo of Argentina1993 Manmohan Singh of India1994 Iiro Viinanen of Finland1995 Roberto de Ocampo of the Philippines1996 Robert Rubin of the United States of America1997 Anatoly Chubais of Russia1998 Leszek Balcerowicz of Poland1999 José Ángel Gurría of Mexico2000 Brigita Schmögnerovà of Slovakia2001 Shaukat Aziz of Pakistan2002 Milen Veltchev of Bulgaria2003 Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf of Saudi Arabia2004 Ivan Miklos of Slovakia2005 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria2006 Sri Mulyani Indrawati of Indonesia2007 Mlađan Dinkić of Serbia2008 Xie Xuren of China2009 Jim Flaherty of Canada2010 Alexei Kudrin of Russia2011 Wayne Swan of Australia2012 Cesar Purisima of Philippines2013 Tharman Shanmugaratnam of SingaporeThis award was nicknamed "World's Greatest Treasurer" after Keating won in 1984.
