Mathis’s Recognitions

I am grateful for the honors I have received over the years. They have boosted my courage and endurance. They also generate a sense of kinship and community. The sweet and generous recognitions include:

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• Sustainable Shapers in category Vision & Innovation. Awarded by Sustainable Switzerland (Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG to honor individuals who, through their entrepreneurial, scientific, or social efforts, initiate tangible change and drive sustainable development in and from Switzerland  (September 2, 2025)

• Recognition by Vice-Governor of the Province of Córdoba, Argentina (July 1, 2025)

• Honorary degree from Siena University (March 21, 2025)

• the 2024 "Sustainability Award" for leadership in implementation of the Nobel Sustainability Trust, bestowed on November 20, 2024. The Laudatio gives their reason. The celebration explains the significance,

• ​"Orden de la Democracia Simón Bolívar" by the Colombian House of Representatives, October 2, 2024, bestowed on October 24, 2024,

• "Gran Cruz con Placa de Oro" of the Colombian Congress, October 16, 2024, bestowed on October 23, 2024, 

• the 2024 "Premio Mondo d'Oro" of the Fondazione Geoknowledge,

• Honorary doctorate from the University of Stirling (November 24, 2022),

• the 2018 World Sustainability Award,

• Inclusion in the 2020 Fairforce 100 Environmental Data Entrepreneurs,

• the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award,

• Induction in the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) Sustainability Hall of Fame,

• the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto – Hauptpreis,

• the 2012 Blue Planet Prize,

• the 2012 Grosser Binding-Preis für Natur- und Umweltschutz

• the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics,

• the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment,

• Honorary doctorate from the University of Berne (December 2007),

• the 2007 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship,

• the 2005 Second biennial Herman Daly Award of the US Society for Ecological Economics.

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