Ion Ratiu Democracy Prize and Fellowship

The Ion Ratiu Democracy Prize and Fellowship aims to bring international recognition to the ideas and accomplishments of individuals around the world who are working on behalf of democracy. Whether they are in exile from repressive regimes or operating within emerging democracies, recipients of the Ion Ratiu Democracy Prize are democracy advocates with the type of life-changing experience in Washington that Ion Ratiu encountered as a young Romanian democracy activist in the 1970s and 1980s. The Prize provides a month-long scholarship at the Wilson Center during which recepients have an opportunity to immerse themselves in the scholarly, policymaking, and NGO communities in Washington, D.C. The Prize and Fellowship is supported by the Ratiu Family Charitable Foundation, established in 1979. The Foundation aims to further education and research in Romanian culture and history, and to stimulate and support civil society in its understanding and application of democracy and democratic principles worldwide.

Mykhailo Amrosiev, 2023 Ion Ratiu Democracy Fellowship
Roman Protasevich, 2021 Ion Ratiu Democracy Fellowship
Camelia Bogdan, 2019 Ion Ratiu Democracy Fellowship
Manuel Cuesta Moura, 2016 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award
Jamil Hasanli, 2015 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award
Mustafa Nayyem, 2014 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award
Angela Kocze, 2013 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award
Nabeel Rajab, 2011 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award
Oleg Kozlovsky, 2010 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award
Adam Michnik, 2009 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award
Eleonora Cercavschi, 2008 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award
Anatoli Mikhailov, 2007 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award
Saad Ibrahim, 2006 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award 
Sergio Aguayo, 2005 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award (organized and hosted at Georgetown University)