Between 1981-2016, Euromoney magazine awarded the Finance Minister of the Year award.^[1] This award was given to a country Finance Minister who reformed or innovated their countries economy during their tenure. In Australia, the award is colloquially nicknamed "World's Greatest Treasurer" after Paul Keating won in 1984.^[2][3] The award has not been given since 2017, with the magazine focusing their articles and awards on Banking Excellence.^[4]

Past recipients are listed below.^[5]

• 1981 Turgut Özal of Turkey
• 1982 Hon Sui Sen of Singapore
• 1983 Jesús Silva Herzog of Mexico
• 1984 Paul Keating of Australia^[6]
• 1985 Roger Douglas of New Zealand^[7]
• 1986 James Baker of the United States of America^[8]
• 1987 Edouard Balladur of France^[9]
• 1988 Nigel Lawson of the United Kingdom
• 1989 J. B. Sumarlin of Indonesia
• 1990 Philippe Maystadt of Belgium^[10]
• 1991 Carlos Solchaga of Spain
• 1992 Domingo Cavallo of Argentina
• 1993 Manmohan Singh of India^[11]
• 1994 Iiro Viinanen of Finland
• 1995 Roberto de Ocampo of the Philippines^[12]
• 1996 Robert Rubin of the United States of America^[13]
• 1997 Anatoly Chubais of Russia^[14]
• 1998 Leszek Balcerowicz of Poland^[15]
• 1999 José Ángel Gurría of Mexico^[16]
• 2000 Brigita Schmögnerová of Slovakia^[17]
• 2001 Shaukat Aziz of Pakistan^[18]
• 2002 Milen Veltchev of Bulgaria^[19]
• 2003 Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf of Saudi Arabia^[20]
• 2004 Ivan Miklos of Slovakia^[21]
• 2005 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria^[22]
• 2006 Sri Mulyani Indrawati of Indonesia^[23]
• 2007 Mlađan Dinkić of Serbia^[24]
• 2008 Xie Xuren of China^[25]
• 2009 Jim Flaherty of Canada^[26]
• 2010 Alexei Kudrin of Russia^[27]
• 2011 Wayne Swan of Australia^[28]
• 2012 Cesar Purisima of Philippines^[29]
• 2013 Tharman Shanmugaratnam of Singapore^[30]
• 2014 Luis Videgaray Caso of Mexico^[31]
• 2015 Mauricio Cárdenas Santamaría of Colombia^[32]
• 2016 Alfonso Prat-Gay of Argentina^[33]