Announcing the winners for 2019 Blue Planet Prize

July 10, 2019

Today, we issued a press release announcing the winners of the 28th Blue Planet Prize.

The winners are

Prof. Eric Lambin (Belgium)

Professor, Université catholique de Louvain
George and Setsuko Ishiyama Provostial Professor, Stanford University

Prof. Jared Diamond (USA)

Professor, Department of Geography University of California, Los Angeles

Historian, Non-fiction author

The commemorative lectures by the winners will be held at the The University of Tokyo on December 12 (Thursday), at the Kyoto University on 14 (Saturday).

Details will be posted on our website at a later date.

For more information about winners, click here.

(Left) Prof. Eric Lambin (Belgium)
(Right) Prof. Jared Diamond (USA)

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