2011 Awards Luncheon
US State Department
Benjamin Franklin Room
November 29, 2011
The American Academy of Diplomacy hosted its twenty-second annual awards luncheon on Tuesday, November 29, 2011 in the Benjamin Franklin Room of the U.S. Department of State.The Academy presented the Annenberg Award for Excellence in Diplomacy to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (Ambassador Eric Edelman accepted on his behalf). The Douglas Dillon Award for a book of distinction on the practice of American diplomacy was presented to Amb. Edmund J. Hull, for his book High Value Target: Countering Al-Qaeda in Yemen. The Arthur Ross Media Award for Commentary went to Slyvia Poggioli, Sr. European Correspondent at NPR, and the Arthur Ross Media Award for Daily Reporting went to Borzou Daragahi of the Financial Times.
Read Secretary Burns' opening remarks from the 2011 Awards Luncheon.
2010 Awards Luncheon
> Remarks of William J. Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs
> Remarks of Lynne Joiner, winner of the 2010 Douglas Dillon Book Award
> Remarks of Ambassador Harold Saunders, recipient of the 2010 Walter and Leonore Annenberg Award for Excellence in Diplomacy
> Media Coverage: Post's Walter Pincus Honored for Distinguished Reporting and Analysis of Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, November 30, 2010
Annenberg Award for Excellence in Diplomacy
