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.
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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