Awarded an MBE by King Charles III for services to education, Edison David has built a career grounded not in visibility, but in impact—improving schools, shaping standards, and advocating for children across the UK. 

This year-ender issue, The Global 50: Stories of Filipino Excellence Across Continents, maps that journey. It honors Filipinos who chose uncertainty over familiarity, growth over comfort, and reinvention over standing still. Across continents and industries, they learned new languages without losing old prayers, navigated foreign systems while carrying values shaped by family, memory, and resilience. They adapted without disappearing. They evolved without forgetting.

Daniel Sorza, a Filipino street photographer walks the streets capturing candid, unguarded moments of public servants with heartfelt thank-you notes—from carabinieri and local police to Red Cross volunteers and members of the armed forces.