The Lionel Gelber Prize was founded in 1989 by Canadian diplomat Lionel Gelber. The Gelber Prize is a literary award for the world's best non-fiction book in English that seeks to deepen public debate on significant global issues.

2010 Lionel Gelber Prize
Jury Annoucement

October 27, 2009 (Toronto and Washington) ─ The jury for the 2010 Lionel Gelber Prize, announced today, includes the former Chairman of Dow Jones & Company, the Executive Director of Documentary Programming for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, a prize-winning senior fellow at New York’s Council on Foreign Relations, and a best-selling U.S. economic historian and columnist for Bloomberg News.

The jury was announced by Noah Rubin, Chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize and grand-nephew of Lionel Gelber, the Canadian scholar, diplomat and author in whose memory the Prize was created. “We are gratified that the Prize attracts such distinguished jurors. 
It is an honour to have their service for the 20th anniversary of the Prize,” said Mr. Rubin.

read the full Jury Announcement here...

In the news

Visit the Toronto Star website to read Chronicles for a chaotic age: The five finalists for a rich non-fiction prize strive to make sense of an increasingly fractured world by Olivia Ward. Click here...

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The 2008 Lionel Gelber Prize winner was Professor Paul Collier, for his book The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can be done About It, published by Oxford University Press. Click here to view the webcast of the 2008 Lionel Gelber prize Lecture.

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The Lionel Gelber Prize is presented annually by The Lionel Gelber Foundation in
partnership with the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto and
FOREIGN POLICY.