The Transformational Business Awards are open to all financial and non-financial private sector organisations. The focus is on specific projects and transactions and the impact those initiatives have or promise to have on the problems they are targeting. Special attention will be given to privately-led public-private partnerships.

While the focus of all categories is on transformational impact in developing economies, the awards are also open to projects in the developed world that could be replicated in severely under-supplied regions.

Projects or transactions must have passed the implementation stage, and must be commercially viable now or potentially within five years of implementation. Only initiatives that have been implemented since 2010 will be eligible.

• Achievement in Urban Transformation
• Building Cities
• Planning Cities
• Powering Cities
• Feeding Cities
• Livable Cities
• Special Award: Excellence in City Transformation
• Achievement in Information and Communications Technology
• Achievement in Transformational Finance
• Achievement in Inclusive Business

THE ENTRY DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 31 MARCH

The winners in each category will be announced at a special dinner at the InterContinental London Park Lane on 11 June 2015.

The dinner will conclude the inaugural FT/IFC Transformational Business Conference, a major one-day summit that will gather policy-makers, business leaders and strategists from around the world to discuss new ways of tackling the key challenges facing emerging

economies and societies.

Find out more about 2014's winners here >>