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BRAC chairperson Fazle Hasan Abed and Jordan's Queen Rania Al Abdullah have been selected for this year's David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award, the Ngo said in a statement on Friday.

The award will be handed on Sept 23 in New York.

Abed was nominated for the award for his innovative activities to empower poor and help them secure human rights, the statement said.

The Synergos Institute gives the award every year since 2003.

The award was named after David Rockefeller, first recipient of the award.

Former South Africa president Nelson Mandela and Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates and William H. Gates Sr., co-chairs, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, were honoured with the award last year.