NEW YORK- Pakistani film-maker, journalist and activist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has been honoured with yet another prestigious international award.
She has won the prestigious 2018 Eliasson Global Leadership Prize.
Sharmeen is the first Pakistani to win the honour due to her extraordinary leadership and work that is courageous, optimistic, dynamic, rooted in universal values and fundamentally global in reach, conception and impact.
The filmmaker has been chosen from among 825 nominees from 130 countries and dozens of different occupations, positions, and causes.
Chinoy was awarded this prize by The Tällberg Foundation in New York.
The 2018 winners also include Rafael Yuste, a leading neuroscientist and artificial intelligence researcher and Imam Omar Kobine Layama, a Central African Imam dedicated to promoting peace in the region.