European School of Economics hosted and awarded a number of statesman, dignitaries, Nobel Prize winners and celebrities in the past including:
John Nash, Merton Miller, Betty Williams, Mihail Gorbaciov and Joseph Rablat, John Gabraith, Andrew Michael Spence, Harry Markowitz, Douglas North, Gary Becker, Franco Modigliani, James Heckman, Michael Spence, Dominick Salvatore, John K. Galbrath, Nicholas Negroponte, Gordon Bethune and more.
Lifetime Achievement Awards recipients
Beyonce Knowles, Valentino, the Hilton Family, the Trump Family, former President George H.W. Bush, Houston Mayor Bill White, Vogue Italy Editor in Chief ( the late) Franca Sozzani, the late Nobel Prize winner Sir James Mirrlees, Wimbledon Champion and Entrepreneur Stefan Edberg and Chief Science Officer of the SENS Research Foundation, Dr. Aubrey de Grey Phd, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev.