Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2025: Venezuelan Politician Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado by the Norwegian Nobel Committee on 9 October 2025 in Oslo, Norway. Check the complete details about the Nobel Peace Prize 2025 winner who beat US President Donald Trump to clinch the prize and some key facts and important details here in this Veranda RACE article.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2025 Announced

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 has been awarded to Venezuelan politician and industrial engineer Maria Corina Machado, “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy” by the Norwegian Nobel institute in Oslo, Norway on 10 October 2025.

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize recipient in 2025 is Maria Corina Machado from Venezuela.She will now receive the Nobel Peace Prize money of 11 million Swedish kronor (nearly $1.2 million) in 2025.

The Norwegian Nobel Institute registered a total of 338 candidates for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. This includes 244 individuals and 94 organisations.

Who is Maria Corina Machado – Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 2025?

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado for her ‘tireless work promoting democratic rights’ and her ‘struggle for a peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy’ in Venezuela.

Maria Corina Machado is a central figure in Venezuela’s pro-democracy movement. She is also a powerful symbol of civilian courage in Latin America. She is known as the ‘Iron Lady of Venezuela’.

Machado, aged 58, was born in Caracas, Venezuela on 7 October 1967. She is an industrial engineer by training and her father was a prominent businessman in Venezuela’s steel industry. Maria Corina Machado won a resounding victory I the opposition’s primary election in 2023 and her rallies in Venezuela attracted enormous crowds but a ban from holding public office prevented her from running for President election against Nicolas Maduro in 2024.

She is the national coordinator of Vente Venezuela, a liberal political party she co-founded in 2013 and a former Member of the National Assembly of Venezuela (2010-2015).

She helped establish Sumate, a civil society group promoting free elections and Soy Venezuela, a coalition advocating democratic transition.

She was expelled from the Venezuelan parliament in 2014 after denouncing human rights abuses at the Organisation of American States. She has faced charges of treason and conspiracy; travel bans and political disqualification.

She was named among BBC’s 100 Most Influential Women in 2018. She was the recipient of the Charles T. Mantt Prize in 2014, Libertad Cortes de Cadiz in 2015 and the Liberal International Freedom Prize in 2019.

She received the Sakharov Prize and the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize in 2024, recognising her non-violent resistance to authoritarianism in Venezuela.

She was also listed as the Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2025.

Born: 7 October 1967

Born in: Caracas, Venezuela

Political Party: Vente Venezuela

Education:

Industrial Engineering from Andres Bello Catholic University;

Master’s Degree in Finance from Institute of Advanced Studies of Administration

Awards: Nobel Peace Prize (2025), Sakharov Prize (2024), Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize (2024)

What is the Nobel Peace Prize?

The Nobel Peace Prize is an international prize established according to the will of Alfred Nobel that is awarded annually since March 1901 by the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway to people who have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.

The Oxford Dictionary of Contemporary History describes the Nobel Peace Prize as the ‘most prestigious prize in the world’.

The recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize will be selected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a five member committee appointed by the Parliament of Norway. The prize award ceremony will be held in Oslo City Hall since 1990.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee usually announces the winners of the Nobel Prize in Peace in the month of October every year.

The cash reward for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025 will be 11 million Swedish kroner (SEK).

Key Facts about the Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Prize in Peace has been awarded 106 times since 1901 until 2024.

Between 1901 and 2024, the Nobel Prize in Peace has been awarded to 143 individual Nobel Peace Prize Laureates.

The Nobel Prize in Peace was first awarded in 1901.

It has not been awarded on nineteen occasions: in 1914, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1948, 1955, 1956, 1966, 1967 and 1972.

Only 20 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace.

As of October 2024, the Nobel Peace Prize have been awarded to 112 individuals and 28 organisations.

Only two recipients have won the Nobel Peace Prize multiple times: International Committee of the Red Cross (1917, 1944 and 1963) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1954 and 1981).

Bertha von Suttnerwas the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905 ‘for her audacity to oppose the horrors of war’.

Malala Yousafzai is the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate and was awarded in 2014 at the age of 17.

The oldest Nobel Peace Prize laureate is Jospeh Rotblat and he was received it at the age of 86 in 1995.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner of 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 is awarded to the Venezuelan politician and industrial engineer Maria Corina Machado, “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy”.

Nobel Peace Prize: Past Winners