How we celebrate the world’s most visionary entrepreneurs

EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year™ is the ultimate global competition for entrepreneurs.

In brief

• EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year celebrates the entrepreneurs who inspire us all to build a better world.
• The annual program features visionary entrepreneurs from more than 75 countries and territories.
• The world winner is chosen by a globally diverse panel of independent judges, based on four criteria that measure long-term value.

We admire entrepreneurs for their ambition, relentless optimism and intellectual curiosity. Through these characteristics, they identify and seize opportunity to catalyze change in virtually every industry and affect some of the world’s most complex challenges.   

At EY, our goal is to support entrepreneurs as they transform their businesses and scale to new heights. One way we do that is through EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™, the only global program of its kind for entrepreneurs. Since its 1986 founding in the US, this prestigious initiative now operates 58 programs across 79 countries and territories around the world.

Every year, winners from around the world vie for the EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year title. It has become the ultimate global competition and recognition event for the world’s top entrepreneurs. 

Selecting our world winner requires an understanding that entrepreneurship and business success can look different in different parts of the world. We strive to compare all country and territory winners fairly through an independent, global panel of judges using criteria that embody long-term value.