 In 2017, as MD of Glenheim, he was named an Ideas Scholar by the Aspen Institute ahead of the annual Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado.Bloor is an associate at the Parliamentary Institute of South Africa and as a member of the advisory board to the Sable Accelerator.In 2008 he received a Culture of Enterprise Award from former US Attorney General Edwin Meese III for his research into "enterprise and a humane economy" 

The Cape Town Press Club awarded him its Graduate Bursary Award in 2010, recognising "over 500 articles published locally and abroad with contributions to over a dozen publications undertaken".