Celebrating Excellence: BCI Global Award Winners 2024
The BCI Global Awards recognise the achievements of resilience and business continuity individuals, teams, and organizations from across the world. This year, at BCI World Hybrid 2024, the prestigious awards were presented in person at a gala dinner held at London’s Leonardo Tower Bridge Hotel and broadcasted online to a global audience.
Each of the following winners won their regional category earlier this year and were selected by a panel of expert judges to be the best global practitioners of 2024. We are delighted to see a diverse range of nationalities represented among the category winners, reflecting the international membership of the BCI.
We would like to take this opportunity to extend our heartfelt congratulations to Honeywell for being shortlisted for the Collaboration in Resilience Award. Due to an oversight on our part, they were not acknowledged during the global awards ceremony.
Many congratulations to the BCI Global Award 2024 winners.
Collaboration in resilience: The Roads and Transport Authority (Middle East)
Continuity and resilience consultant: Phillipe Tasse-Gagne MBCI (Americas)
Continuity and resilience innovation: Communications, Space & Technology Commission (CST) (Middle East)
Continuity and resilience newcomer: James Crozier CBCI (Europe)
Continuity and resilience professional Public Sector: Elizabeth Sartorelli AMBCI (APAC)
Continuity and resilience professional Private Sector: James Lodge FBCI (Europe)
Continuity and resilience provider (service/product): BCM next (Middle East)
Continuity and resilience team: LTIMindtree Limited (India/SA)
Continuity and resilience volunteer: Vaidyanathan Chandramouli MBCI (India/SA)
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Champion/Ally: Isabelle Primeau MBCI (Americas)
Most Effective Recovery: EXL Service (India/SA)
Most Effective Supply Chain Resilience: LV= (Europe)
Most Original Exercise Programme: 4C Strategies (Europe)
Winners were delighted to accept their awards in person and virtually, with many stating they felt honoured by the recognition and extended the award to their teams and fellow practitioners.
Continuity and Resilience Professional, Public Sector, winner Elizabeth Sartorelli said “It’s amazing to be able to represent and shine a light on some of the great work happening within the New Zealand Government Sector in Continuity and Resilience.” Also, the Collaboration in Resilience winners, Roads and Transport Authority Middle East, highlighted how winning an industry award helps to validate their approach and performance. They said: “Winning this prestigious award validates our proactive approach and continuous improvement in business continuity management”. James Lodge, Continuity and Resilience Professional in the Private Sector winner, noted that recognition in the resilience field is rare and that awards from the BCI celebrate all resilience professionals. He said: “Ours is a field that rarely receives the recognition it deserves; when we do our jobs exceptionally well, most people don't notice. This recognition from the Business Continuity Institute, validates not just my contributions, but the collective efforts of everyone who has supported and collaborated with me throughout my journey. It reinforces the importance of our profession's mission to build more resilient organisations and communities.”
Honorary, Merit or Achievement Awards
The BCI would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate and recognise the achievements of the following individuals who have received Honorary, Merit or Achievement Awards:
Honorary Fellowship Award to Desmond O’Callaghan
BCI Diploma Gold Award Student of the Year: Penny Lewendon
Alan Reed Education Award (the top scoring candidates across both 2018 CBCI course and new 7.0 CBCI course for this year only):
Čedomil Švarc CBCI
Joeri Tolboom CBCI
Michael Billing CBCI
Najla Al Baz CBCI
Yuna Yeo CBCI
Hall of Fame (an individual or organization that has won their category 3 times)
EXL Service for Collaboration in Resilience (India & South Asia 2021, APAC 2022 and India & South Asia 2024)
If you know an individual, team, or organization that has demonstrated exceptional dedication, innovation, and excellence in resilience, we invite you to recognise their achievements by submitting a nomination for the 2025 BCI Awards opening in March 2025.
1 of 4
BCI Global Award Winners
2 of 4
BCI Global Awards Dinner
3 of 4
Heather Merchan, Jasmiina Rousu and Desmond O’Callaghan with his Honorary Fellowship award
4 of 4
Jasmiina Rousu presenting the awards
Watch the BCI Global Awards 2024 Ceremony
More on
About the author
Rebecca Mathews
The BCI
