Founded in 2019, the annual Robert G. Wilmers Integrity Prize supports individuals working in the United States who demonstrate exceptional integrity through their actions and advocacy. With integrity in leadership and service to community at the forefront of our search, each year we honor an individual striving to better our world in a different field.
Being dedicated to principles without compromise.
Always anchoring actions with core beliefs and having the courage to do so even if it means going against the grain.
Thinking independently.
Disregarding outside pressures, trusting your vision and solving problems based on what you’ve learned, observed and considered for yourself.
Enriching communities sustainably.
Really knowing your community, listening to and addressing its needs with your work in a way that fosters growth.
Doing the right thing.
Even if it’s the most difficult choice, even if no one’s looking, you remain committed to doing what you think is morally right.
Senior chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell
Founder of Belgrave Court Consulting
Director of the Mercury Store in Gowanus, Brooklyn
President of ARTLIFEdesign, LLC
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of M&T
Renowned cellist whose career is a testament to his enduring belief in culture’s power to generate trust and understanding
Executive vice president for policy at Related Companies in New York
Founder and Director of Bard Prison Initiative
Founder and CEO of Khesed Wellness
Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, best-selling author, and senior correspondent and associate editor for the Washington Post
Author, filmmaker, and Executive Director of the Wilmers Integrity Prize
Philanthropist and widow of the late Robert G. Wilmers
Paris-based marketing expert and stepdaughter of the late Robert G. Wilmers
Executive Director of the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University
Vice president and secretary of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Brand builder and former creative director of Barnes & Noble
CEO of Y.M. Ragan Consulting and former president of Buffalo Promise Neighborhood
Executive coach and former managing director of leadership at JPMorgan Chase, Bankers Trust, and KPMG