Walter
and Leonore Annenberg Award
for Excellence in Diplomacy
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Last year, the Annenberg Award was given to Ambassador Harold Saunders, director of international affairs at the Kettering Foundation, on November 30, 2010.
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The Academy
hosts an annual awards luncheon to recognize an individual who has
made exemplary contributions to the field of American diplomacy.
The Annenberg Award for Excellence in Diplomacy is presented each year at this luncheon at the U.S. State Department. Recipients of the Annenberg Award are recommended by the Academy's Executive Committee and are approved by the Board of Directors.
Previous recipients of the Annenberg Award include:
| William Lacy Swing | 2009 | Director General, International Organization for Migration (IOM) |
| Ryan C. Crocker | 2008 | Ambassador to Iraq |
| Christopher Hill | 2007 | Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs |
Max M. 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 Undersecretary of State |
2003 |
Former Senator |
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2002 |
Secretary of State |
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2001 |
UN Secretary General |
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Richard Lugar &
Sam Nunn |
2000 |
Nunn-Lugar Cooperative
Threat Reduction Program |
Stuart Eizenstat |
1999 |
Deputy Secretary of
the Treasury |
George Mitchell |
1998 |
Peace Negotiations
on Northern Ireland |
George F. Kennan |
1997 |
Lifetime Contributions
to Diplomacy |
| Dennis
Ross |
1996 |
Special
Middle East Coordinator |
| Richard Holbrooke |
1996 |
Dayton Peace Accords
on Bosnia |
| Robert Gallucci |
1995 |
Ambassador-at-Large;
North Korean Negotiations |
| General John Vessey
(USA, ret'd) |
1994 |
President Emissary
to Hanoi for missing American servicemen |
| Robert Oakley | 1993 | Special Envoy to Somalia |
| (no award) |
1992 |
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| Vernon Walters |
1991 |
Ambassador to Germany |
| Thomas Pickering |
1990 |
Ambassador to the United Nations |
| Rozanne Ridgway | 1989 | Assistant, Secretary of State for European Affairs |
(no award) Stephen W. Bosworth |
1988 1987 |
Ambassador to the Philippines |
