Ramon Magsaysay Award 2025

The Board of Trustees of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation (RMAF) announced this year’s recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s premier prize and highest honor. The announcement also marks the beginning of the 67th Ramon Magsaysay Awards Festival Season, a continuing celebration of transformative leadership and greatness of spirit that shape Asia and inspire the world. The 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Awardees are:

Foundation to Educate Girls Globally (India)

Educate Girls founded by Safeena Husain in Rajasthan, is a non-profit that focuses on mobilising communities for girls’ education in India’s rural and educationally marginalised areas. Strongly aligned with the ‘Right to Education Act’, ‘Samagra Shiksha,’ and the National Education Policy, Educate Girls is committed to the Government’s vision to improve access to quality education for all learners, especially girls and young women.

In electing the Foundation to Educate Girls Globally to receive the 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Award, the board of trustees recognizes its commitment to addressing cultural stereotyping through the education of girls and young women, liberating them from the bondage of illiteracy and infusing them with skills, courage, and agency to achieve their full human potential.

Shaahina Ali (Maldives)

A Maldivian environmental advocate and ocean conservationist tackling plastic pollution and safeguarding fragile marine ecosystems in her country.

In electing Shaahina Ali to receive the 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Award, the board of trustees recognizes her unwavering commitment to protecting the marine ecosystem of the Maldives with passion, vision, and inclusivity, ensuring that her work will be carried on by another generation of Maldivians in search of effective local solutions to global problems.

Flaviano Antonio L. Villanueva (Philippines)

A Catholic priest who works in restoring dignity to thousands of poor and homeless in Metropolitan Manila.

In electing Fr. Flaviano Antonio L. Villanueva to receive the 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Award, the board of trustees recognizes his lifelong mission to uphold the dignity of the poor and the oppressed, daily proving with unwavering faith that by serving the least of their brethren, all are restored.