Congratulations to our 2025 finalists. Each will be a gold mine of inspiration, good ideas and novel applications. I look forward to seeing their quality shine.
Winners and finalists
We are delighted to announce the winners and finalists for the International Quality Awards 2025.
The CQI’s annual International Quality Awards celebrate quality excellence across nine categories, recognising and rewarding the contribution of quality professionals, teams and organisations worldwide. A panel of subject-matter experts evaluates and judges the entries to ensure the highest level of rigour.
We’re excited to have more finalists than ever, with stand-out submissions representing all categories and over double the previous years’ entries for the Emerging Talent category. Across the seven public categories, we have first-time finalists from Brazil, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Taiwan.
| Emerging Talent | Mohannad Alismail - Aramco (Saudi Arabia) Winner Charlotte Orton – Sellafield Ltd (UK) Daniel Thompson – Element Materials Technology (UK) Find out more about the winner and finalists here |
| Quality Professional of the Year | Gerhard Weiss – Netcare (South Africa) Winner Christopher Chinapoo - Five Star Quality & Justice Associates (Jamaica) Paul Townley – Quality advocate Find out more about the winner and finalists here |
| Digital Innovation | IP Security Solutions Ltd. (Bulgaria) Winner ENSPEK Technical Services LLC (United Arab Emirates) Golden Wealth Management Co. (Taiwan) Find out more about the winner and finalists here |
| ESG Impact | Petrobras (Brazil) Winner Ajman Police General Headquarters (United Arab Emirates) Hayley’s Fabric (Sri Lanka) Hirdaramani Apparel (Sri Lanka) Find out more about the winner and finalists here |
| Developing Quality Talent | K-Electric (Pakistan) Winner British American Tobacco (BAT) (UK) LifeScan (UK) Mott MacDonald (UK) Find out more about the winner and finalists here |
| Quality Team of the Year | Dubai Municipality (United Arab Emirates) Winner Kernel (Ukraine) Highly Commended Ajman Police General Headquarters (United Arab Emirates) Explore Manufacturing – part of Laing O’Rourke (UK) Find out more about the winner and finalists here |
| Quality Organisation of the Year | BAE Systems – Electronic Systems Rochester (UK) Winner Ajman Police General Headquarters (United Arab Emirates) Rolls Royce SMR (UK) Find out more about the winner and finalists here |
| CQI Volunteering Impact Award | Branch Review Advisory Panel (BRAP) Derby and Nottingham network Roxann Dawson Find out more about the winner and finalists here |
| Outstanding Contribution to Quality Management Practice | Estelle Shiells Meet the winner here |
The award winners were announced as part of Quality Live on Thursday 19 June in London. The winners of the CQI Volunteering Impact Award (formerly CQI Volunteer of the Year) and Outstanding Contribution to Quality Management Practice were also announced.
Congratulations to all our winners and finalists and thank you to everyone who submitted their applications.
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Watch highlights from the IQA 2024 award ceremony
