Pires was awarded the 2011 Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership.
In 2007 at the Kennedy School, he directed the establishment of the Index for African Governance, to help evaluate leaders for the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, awarded annually by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.
African American | Nobel Prize | Pulitzer Prize | Nobel Peace Prize | Ibrahim Babangida | Nobel Prize in Literature | Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design | African | African National Congress | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Nobel Prize in Chemistry | African Development Bank | Central African Republic | Organisation of African Unity | South African Air Force | Nobel prize | Archibald Prize | Turner Prize | African Union | Economic Community of West African States | South African Republic | North African Campaign | Nobel Prize in Physics | Abdullah Ibrahim | Man Booker Prize | Anwar Ibrahim | West African Development Bank | Southern Christian Leadership Conference | Sultan Ibrahim | North West (South African province) |