2025 Gold Medal
The 2025 Global Business & Interfaith Peace Gold Medal goes to Dr. Rahul Vishwanath Karad, Managing Trustee and Executive President of MAEER’S MIT Group of Institutions, which encompasses more than 70 institutes and nurtures over 80,000 students.
In 2005, Dr. Rahul Karad founded the MIT-World Peace University School of Government with the mission of shaping future political leaders who embody ethics, spirituality, and leadership. More recently he launched the National Legislators’ Conference Bharat, providing an avenue for legislators across India to gather at one place and exchange ideas.
Most recently, under his patronage, the MIT World Peace University’s Education Department piloted “Human Rights & Business Skills” secondary school curriculum in diverse schools, including Muslim and Christian minority schools, schools serving underserved communities, and the university’s own attached secondary school. The results were overwhelmingly positive, and a very promising feature of the curriculum is that Corporate Social Responsibility funding is a potential avenue to sustain and expand this initiative across India and the world. We congratulate Dr. Rahul Karad and the MIT Would Peace University’s Education Department for developing the world’s first business skills curriculum that reinforces and applies human rights.
Since 2016, the Global Business & Interfaith Peace Awards have been held in Rio de Janeiro, Seoul South Korea, Tokyo Japan, New Delhi India, and Washington DC, honoring leaders including the CEO of the Intel Corporation, Chair of Tyson Foods, Chair of Godrej Industries, CCO of American Airlines, Chairman and CEO of Span Construction and Engineering, and Founder and CEO at Empowering a Billion Women, for championing interfaith understanding, religious freedom and peace.
The Awards began in partnership with the UN Global Compact and former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s Business for Peace initiative.