Laureates
| Year | Theme | Laureate |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Past - History | Warburg Library |
| Present - Technology, Information and Society | Daniel Hillis | |
| Future - Life sciences | Sydney Brenner, John Sulston, Robert Waterston | |
| 2003 | Past - Paleoanthropology | Michel Brunet |
| Present - Print & electronic media | James Nachtwey, Frederick Wiseman | |
| Future - cosmology & astronomy | John Bahcall | |
| 2004 | Past - Cities: Historical legacy | Rome, Istanbul, Jerusalem |
| Present - Leadership: Changing our World | Klaus Schwab | |
| Future - Brain sciences | Robert Wurtz, Amiram Grinvald, William Newsome | |
| 2005 | Past- Archaeology | Graeme Barker, Israel Finkelstein |
| Present - The Performing Arts: Film, Theater, Dance, Music | Peter Brook | |
| Future - Materials science | Robert Langer, George Whitesides, C.N.R. Rao | |
| 2006 | Past - Music | Yo-Yo Ma |
| Present - Journalism | Magdi Allam, Monica Gonzalez, Adam Michnik, Goenawan Mohamad | |
| Future - Treatment of cancer | John Mendelsohn, Joseph Schlessinger | |
| 2007 | Past - Historians | Jacques Le Goff |
| Present - Contemporary Music | Pascal Dusapin, Zubin Mehta | |
| Future - Quest for Energy | James E. Hansen, Jerry Olson, Sarah Kurtz | |
| 2008 | Past - Creative Rendering of the Past | Amos Oz, Tom Stoppard, Atom Egoyan |
| Present - Social Responsibility | Al Gore | |
| Future - Geosciences | Ellen Mosley-Thompson & Lonnie Thompson, Geoffrey Eglinton | |
| 2009 | Past - Astrophysics - History of the Universe | Paolo de Bernardis, Andrew E. Lange, Paul Richards |
| Present - Leadership | Tony Blair | |
| Future - Global Public Health | Robert Gallo | |
| 2010 | Past - March Towards Democracy | Giorgio Napolitano |
| Present - Literature: Rendition of the 20th Century | Margaret Atwood, Amitav Ghosh | |
| Future - Computers and Telecommunications | Leonard Kleinrock, Gordon E. Moore, Michael O. Rabin | |
| 2011 | Past - Evolution | Marcus Feldman |
| Present - Cinema and Society | Coen Brothers | |
| Future - Ageing -Facing the Challenge | Cynthia Kenyon, Gary Ruvkun | |
| 2012 | Past - History/Biography | Robert Conquest, Sir Martin Gilbert |
| Present - Plastic Arts | William Kentridge | |
| Future - Genome Research | David Botstein, Eric Lander, J. Craig Venter |
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