Annenberg Award for Excellence in Diplomacy

The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Award for Excellence in Diplomacy is an annual award given by the American Academy of Diplomacy in recognition of an individual or group who has made exemplary contributions to the field of American diplomacy. Recipients of the award are recommended by the Academy's Executive Committee and approved by the AAD Board of Directors.^[1]

Name	Year	Description
Marie Yovanovitch	2023	U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Thomas R. Pickering	2022	Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador to Russia, U.S. Ambassador to India, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, U.S. Ambassador to Jordan
Foreign Service & Civil Service Personnel of the U.S. Government Who Served in the Viet Nam Evacuation and All U.S. Government Personnel Engaged in the Evacuation of Afghanistan	2021	Accepted by Ambassador Ross Wilson
Jimmy Carter	2020	39th President of the United States of America
John Negroponte	2019	Deputy Secretary of State, Director of National Intelligence, U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq
James A. Baker III	2018	13th and 19th White House Chief of Staff and 61st U.S. Secretary of State
William J. Perry	2017	19th U.S. Secretary of Defense
Robert B. Zoellick	2016	Former World Bank Group President and U.S. Trade Representative
William J. Burns	2015	Former Under Secretary of State
Carla Anderson Hills	2014	Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
George Shultz	2013	Former U.S. Secretary of State
Richard Lugar	2012	Former U.S. Senator
Robert Gates	2011	Former United States Secretary of Defense
Harold H. Saunders	2010	Director of International Affairs at the Kettering Foundation
William L. Swing	2009	Director General, International Organization for Migration
Ryan Crocker	2008	Ambassador to Iraq
Christopher R. Hill	2007	Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Max Kampelman	2006	Head of the United States Delegation to the Negotiations with the Soviet Union on Nuclear and Space Arms
Men and Women of the Foreign and Civil Service	2005	Accepted by Under Secretary R. Nicholas Burns
Joseph J. Sisco	2004	Former Under Secretary of State
John Danforth	2003	Former United States Senator
Colin Powell	2002	United States Secretary of State
Kofi Annan	2001	Secretary-General of the United Nations
Richard Lugar and Sam Nunn	2000	U.S. Senators, architects of the Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction initiative
Stuart Eizenstat	1999	Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
George J. Mitchell	1998	Peace Negotiations on Northern Ireland
George F. Kennan	1997	Lifetime Contributions to Diplomacy
Dennis Ross	1996	Special Middle East Coordinator
Richard Holbrooke	1995	Dayton Peace Accords on Bosnia
Robert Gallucci	1995	Ambassador-at-Large; North Korean Negotiations
General John Vessey (USA, ret.)	1994	President Emissary to Hanoi for missing American servicemen
Robert B. Oakley	1993	Special Envoy to Somalia
no award	1992
Vernon Walters	1991	Ambassador to Germany
Thomas R. Pickering	1990	Ambassador to the United Nations
Rozanne Ridgway	1989	Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
no award	1988
Stephen W. Bosworth	1987	Ambassador to the Philippines

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References

^ ^a ^b "Walter and Leonore Annenberg Award for Excellence in Diplomacy". American Academy of Diplomacy. Archived from the original on 2011-02-04. Retrieved 2010-12-08.

[academyofdiplomacy.org-1] "Walter and Leonore Annenberg Award for Excellence in Diplomacy". American Academy of Diplomacy. Archived from the original on 2011-02-04. Retrieved 2010-12-08.

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