Beginning in 2011, he served a two-year term as a member of the 10 person UN Foundation's Global Entrepreneurs Council. He was chosen by the U.S. Government as an Outstanding American by Choice in 2012, and in 2015 he was appointed by Barack Obama to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. As an American citizen of Iranian descent, Pishevar was awarded an Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2016.
