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Sima Sharifi
Canadian Geographic
|January/February 2019
The Arctic Inspiration Prize co-founder on celebrating Northern Canada’s achievements and creativity
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When Sima Sharifi came to Canada in 1986 as a political refugee from Iran, she fell in love with Canada’s North. So in 2012, Sharifi and her husband, Swiss architect Arnold Witzig, founded the Arctic Inspiration Prize to celebrate the region’s achievements and ingenuity, awarding up to $3 million annually to projects that foster and implement northern knowledge. Now, a year after the couple announced a $60-million donation to sustain the prize into the future, Sharifi discusses her personal connection to the competition, its unexpected growth and the most memorable winners.
This story is from the January/February 2019 edition of Canadian Geographic.
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