Christiane Amanpour to be awarded the 2025 Fulbright Prize

CNN and PBS Anchor and Journalist to be honored for her outstanding commitment to reporting stories and hosting discussions that deepen international and cultural understanding

Award ceremony to take place on May 8, 2025, at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC

Washington, DC – The Fulbright Association will award the 2025 J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding to Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international anchor of the network’s global affairs program “Amanpour,” “Amanpour & Company” which airs on PBS in the United States, and host of “The Amanpour Hour,” for a lifetime of exemplary global journalism that is timely, insightful, and deeply educational.

Dr. David Maxwell, chair of the Fulbright Prize Selection Committee, explains that “Ms. Amanpour represents the finest traditions of international reporting. We honor her integrity, balanced approach, and unshakeable commitment to bringing light and understanding to the most complicated global issues and conflicts.”

“Christiane Amanpour may be the most important and respected international educator of our era—or any era,” says Association Board Chair Dr. Robert Gervasi, president of Mount Saint Mary College. “To every conversation, interview, and story, she brings a lifetime of experience and expertise. Ms. Amanpour belongs to a great pantheon of international journalists, and we are excited to honor her in a time when such journalism is more important than ever.”

“The Fulbright Association is delighted to offer the 2025 Fulbright Prize in partnership with the Johns Hopkins University, which shares our commitment to educational and research exchanges as foundational to successful cross-national cooperation,” said Dr. John Bader, the Association’s executive director. “Hopkins’ new Bloomberg Center, steps away from the US Capitol, is a perfect, extraordinary facility to host the Prize ceremony and reception.”

For more information about the event, sponsorship, and the Fulbright Prize, visit www.fulbright.org/prize.

About Christiane Amanpour

Christiane Amanpour is CNN’s chief international anchor of the network’s award-winning, flagship global affairs program “Amanpour,” which also airs as “Amanpour and Company” on PBS in the United States. She is also host of “The Amanpour Hour,” a Saturday show consisting of forensic interviews with the news makers, game changers and cultural icons shaping our world.

Her illustrious career in journalism spans more than four decades since joining CNN in 1983.  Amanpour rose through the organization becoming the network’s leading international correspondent reporting on international crisis’ and interviewed most of the top world leaders. She has received every major broadcast award, including fourteen News and Documentary Emmys, four Peabody Awards, three George Polk Awards, three duPont-Columbia Awards, the Courage in Journalism Award, The Columbia Journalism Award and ten honorary degrees.

She was inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame, Broadcast & Cable Hall of Fame and The Atlanta Press Club’s Hall of Fame.  She is a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and an honorary citizen of Sarajevo.  Amanpour is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island.

About the J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding

The Fulbright Prize honors one of the world’s most prestigious international exchange programs, as well as the vision of its sponsor, the late Senator J. William Fulbright. Awarded by the Fulbright Association since 1993, the Prize recognizes outstanding contributions to promoting peace and a better life through greater understanding and cooperation among peoples, cultures, and nations. The Prize has a distinguished history of Laureates, among them Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu, Bill Clinton, Vaclav Havel, Corazon Aquino, Mary Robinson, Doctors without Borders, Bill and Melinda Gates, Angela Merkel, and Bono. More on the Prize, with a complete list of Laureates, at fulbright.org/prize

About the Fulbright Program

The Fulbright Program was created in 1946 through Congressional legislation proposed by Senator J. William Fulbright. The Program embodies the visionary concept of promoting mutual understanding between countries through academic and bicultural exchange. The Program provides exchanges between the United States and more than 160 countries worldwide, funded by the U.S. Government with bipartisan support, and contributions from 49 foreign countries whose permanent commissions execute the Fulbright Program on a binational level. Annually, about 8,000 grantees, American and foreign, participate in the Fulbright exchange as students, scholars, researchers, English and other language teachers, and professional specialists. Read more at eca.state.gov/fulbright

About the Fulbright Association

The Fulbright Association is the alumni organization of the Fulbright Program in the United States, representing over 140,000 American grantees. Founded in 1977, it is an independent non-profit organization based in Washington, DC, with 59 chapters in 38 states. Fulbright Association programs promote wider representation in global affairs, celebrate world leaders who build mutual understanding, expand opportunities for international exchange, share the ideas of Fulbrighters worldwide to inspire change and cooperation, and support the next generation of Fulbright leaders. Read more at fulbright.org

About the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center

The Hopkins Bloomberg Center opened in the fall of 2023 and is anchored by the university’s School of Advanced International Studies, Carey Business School, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Peabody Institute, and the soon-to-be-established School of Government and Policy. In addition to invitation-only conferences and teaching, the center hosts a range of free public programming representing all corners of Johns Hopkins, bringing to Pennsylvania Avenue thousands of students, faculty experts, and researchers from all the university’s Baltimore- and D.C.-based divisions together with policymakers, practitioners, artists, media, and community members. Visit the Hopkins Bloomberg Center website for more information and to register for upcoming events.