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