Most significant positive evidence
Large, durable institutions serving health, education, culture and economic opportunity across communities.
Person
Aga Khan IV
International development, health, education, cultural restoration, pluralism, hereditary authority and transparency.
This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.
Ethical assessment categories
Current published result
Overall ethical score
+68.33
Reasoned summary
A strongly positive developmental record moderated by inherited authority and opaque institutional boundaries.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
Most significant negative evidence
Hereditary authority, concentrated resources and incomplete transparency reduce the result.
Read the full Aga Khan IV ethical assessment, evidence and sources
Six-dimensional ethical profile
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
- Personal moral conduct
- +62.50
- Rights and dignity
- +58.33
- Nonviolence and harm
- +80.00
- Stewardship of power
- Not applicable
- Wisdom and truthfulness
- +62.50
- Consequential legacy
- +78.33
- Severe-harm record
- No separate finding recorded
Assessment history
Ethical assessment: Aga Khan IV (1957–2025)
1957–2025 · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile