2025 Award Winners and Finalists

Below you can find 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 evaluate and judge the entries to ensure the highest level of rigour. 

In 2025, we had 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.

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.

Vince Desmond, CEO, CQI

International Quality Awards 2025 finalists

Emerging Talent

Mohannad Alismail - Aramco (Saudi Arabia) Winner

Charlotte Orton – Sellafield Ltd (UK) 

Daniel Thompson – Element Materials Technology (UK) 

Quality Professional of the Year 

Gerhard Weiss – Netcare (South Africa) Winner

Christopher Chinapoo - Five Star Quality & Justice Associates (Jamaica)

Paul Townley – Quality advocate

Digital Innovation 

IP Security Solutions Ltd. (Bulgaria) Winner

ENSPEK Technical Services LLC (United Arab Emirates) 

Golden Wealth Management Co. (Taiwan)

ESG Impact 

Petrobras (Brazil) Winner

Ajman Police General Headquarters (United Arab Emirates) 

Hayley’s Fabric (Sri Lanka) 

Hirdaramani Apparel (Sri Lanka) 

Developing Quality Talent 

K-Electric (Pakistan) Winner

British American Tobacco (BAT) (UK)

LifeScan (UK) 

Mott MacDonald (UK) 

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) 

Quality Organisation of the Year 

BAE Systems – Electronic Systems Rochester (UK) Winner

Ajman Police General Headquarters (United Arab Emirates) 

Rolls Royce SMR (UK)

CQI Volunteering Impact Award

Branch Review Advisory Panel (BRAP)

Derby and Nottingham network

Roxann Dawson

Outstanding Contribution to Quality Management Practice

Estelle Shiells

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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